the Chief of the Federal Police, Commissioner Néstor Roncaglia, today admitted that it generated controversy for the implementation of the new Protocol on the use of firearms on the part of the Federal security forces. A the time clarified that ‘the spirit of this regulation is to provide tools to police officers to know what to do with a situation of imminent threat’.” This does not mean to shoot at close range, just be aware and know the offender used a weapon will have opposite a police which, evaluating the situation of threat and extreme gravity, also can shoot,”explained Roncaglia.
“No one is going to go out and shoot from behind a guy who stole a pack of cigarettes and runs off,” said.
The police chief said that the Mission of this force is to take care of society and to do this they must have tools to “discourage the activity of criminals”. He added after that it is also referred to “more training” to “greater responsibility” and the uniformed.
The police chief defended the new regulation on guns “This is not what you want to do”, clarified in dialogue with TN. “If there is a case of trigger-happy, an excess in self-defence in the line of duty, who is going to judge is a judge with a fiscal impulse, that remains intact because the regulation is under the law,” said the Commissioner. In this note:
