was published today in the Official Gazette a new protocol for the use of firearms, which repeals and more flexible regulations and recommendations of United Nations for the deadly use of force. The new rule, drafted by the Ministry of security, enables the use of firearms to all security forces federal against “imminent danger”, and allows them to “act under threat” or the presumption that the suspect has a weapon to letal.EN SITUATIONS the forces may use their weapons: When it is acting under threat of death or serious injury for Yes, or to third parties.
When the alleged offender possess a deadly weapon, although after the facts are proves that it was a simile of a lethal weapon.
When it is presumed likely that the suspect may possess a deadly weapon when being armed, look for advantage barricading is, hiding, or improving its position from attack.
When you have the ability to certain or highly likely to produce, even without the use of weapons, the death or serious injury to any person.
When leakage after causing or attempting to cause, death or serious injury.
When unpredictability, attack, or the number of offenders, or the weapons they used, materially impede the proper performance of the duty or the ability to exercise self-defence or of third parties.
CRITICISM of CORREPI “With this rule, the already very frequent shootings of trigger-happy will not only multiply to infinity, they their perpetrators will automatically be unpunished by ministerial Empire,” warned from the Coordinator against the Police and institutional repression CORREPI.
“This enables the legal use of the weapon in a series of situations that are the main excuses used by members of the security forces in their defence when they are judged by the execution of people”, held in CORREPI.
THE case CHOCOBAR as ANTECEDENTEEste Protocol is in line with the attitude taken by Minister Patricia Bullrich and until the own Macri in the case of police Luis Chocobar, who soon will be judged by a court, charged with “aggravated homicide” John Pablo Kukoc.” I do not understand what hope the judges, what do you do release? “, had told the President, before the confirmation of the indictment to Chocobar, in various judicial bodies.”
Part of the regulation published in the Official Gazette in this note:
