After an assault on the home of the Minister of Defense, Maya Fernández, in Ñuñoa, and after a carabinero was assaulted and shot in Colina, in the midst of the discussion to re-establish militarization in the south of the country, also considering the death of the young journalist Francisca Sandoval at Estación Central, the undersecretary for Crime Prevention, Eduardo Vergara, stated that “the moment in the country forces us to have a public-private articulation” against delinquency.
In interview with meganews, Undersecretary Vergara argued that “the way we have to deal with criminality, delinquency, is without distinction. And one of the mandates we have is that it cannot be that in Chile talking about security becomes synonymous with inequality.” In this sense, the head of Crime Prevention stated that “the authorities have to be held accountable and that is why we cannot blame other institutions.”
“The person responsible for crime prevention is me and I am going to be the one who is going to be evaluated for the task I do from the point of view of the citizenry and if they can or walk calmly,” Vergara sentenced.
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The head of the undersecretary dependent on the Ministry of the Interior questioned: “Is the work of the Government, Carabineros, the PDI or the preventive role of the municipalities enough?” No, he replied.
In his opinion, “the moment in the country forces us to have a public-private articulation and it does not seem right to me that when there is a bad job in private security for a soccer game or a concert, hundreds of carabineros have to be arranged to leave the territories that they are suffering”. For this reason, Undersecretary Vergara reiterated that in order to move forward “we need a country, public-private pact.”
“When we reinforced 17 communes with police, many say that the mayors came out to criticize, but they did not come out to criticize, they went out to do their job,” he added, without giving further details about the proposed alliance with the private sector.
Additionally, the Undersecretary for Crime Prevention stressed that “the mandate we have from our minister and the President is that we go to the towns and communities.”
“That is my responsibility and I take it with a very great sense of urgency, which is the way we have to work to take charge of a country moment without blaming other governments or institutions but working together,” he closed.
