The Undersecretary for Crime Prevention, Eduardo Vergara, addressed the role of the State in the response to organized crime and homicides that occur in the country. Acts of violence that have increased nationwide.
According to the Government, “we are returning to the levels of crime with the highest connotation that we had prior to 2019.” This was stated by the Ministry of the Interior to Congress last week.
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Vergara assured, in conversation Channel 13that “with the same speed that crime advances and mutates, it is the State that has the responsibility to respond immediately and with a sense of urgency to these concerns.”
And he revealed that there are communes that have few economic resources to prevent crime, “200 pesos, that is the budget that many communes have per capita for crime prevention in this country, while there are others that have 38,000 pesos per capita to prevent the crime”.
What is it that matters to us? she questioned. “Not taking away resources from some to move others, not removing police officers from one district just to move them to others, but leveling the playing field upwards so that we have a preventive common minimum,” said Undersecretary Vergara.
The official from the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security highlighted the impact of this difference in money to deal with crimes adequately, stating that in front of a commune with 200 pesos per capita “it is very different from what a police officer can achieve in a With 38,000 pesos, with private security networks in homes, with a business with greater technology, the capacity of that police officer is maximized and that is precisely where we are moving forward with the concrete and operational measures that we have announced.
Vergara emphasized the presentation of the National Public Security Plan, which was announced by President Gabriel Boric during his tour of Arica and Parinacota this week. The head of the Undersecretariat for Crime Prevention stated that said plan is focused on reinforcing the police force so that it is equitable in all the districts of the country.
To deal with the escalation of violence, the undersecretary pointed out that they are doing “the same thing that we are doing with other unfortunately very complex phenomena such as homicide, the most complex crime and that does not have an amendment.”
“What we do is ask and reiterate to our police officers that they redouble their efforts, that they deepen the work,” Vergara explained.
