Minister Siches condemns attacks on checkpoints of Carabineros de La Araucanía: “We absolutely reject the acts of violence”

The Minister of the Interior, Izkia Siches, addressed this morning the latest attacks recorded on Carabineros barracks in the region of La Araucanía, indicating that they are carrying out all the tools at their disposal to stop the organized crime gangs that operate in the area.
“Our government has said it permanently, we absolutely reject the acts of violence, especially when these are attacks against the Carabineros and against the institutions of the State, which precisely fulfill the mission of bringing order and tranquility to the different regions,” he said in Emol.
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In the presentation on the extension of the Plan against street trade in the Metropolitan region, the Secretary of State took the opportunity to reject the attacks on the Carabineros checkpoints located in Púa and Capitán Pastene reported this weekend.
In this line, the chief of staff said that “particularly in this area, we have had a complementary measure such as the state of constitutional exception that contributes to having different points of control and collaboration by the Armed Forces.”
He also stressed that the Government of President Gabriel Boric hopes that “these acts of violence will not be repeated, as well as using all the capacities of the State to confront organized gangs, and for this the work of the Public Ministry with the Investigation Police is fundamental.”
Advisory Council to the Reform of Carabineros
In the activity, she was also consulted about the relaunch of the Advisory Council of the Reform to Carabineros that was temporarily suspended during the present administration when presenting a work team that did not contemplate the one already formed during the mandate of Sebastián Piñera.

Siches denied a change of opinion within the Executive, specifying that “from the first day, what we committed to both undersecretaries, is to be able to work together, first, analyzing very clearly what the details of the development of the reform are, that is what the commissions have been working on in this time and to be able to relaunch this process.”
When delving into the functions of this Advisory Council, the Minister of the Interior said that “it intends what we have pointed out from day one, we understand the police and particularly the Carabineros as a fundamental institution for the social cohesion of our country that needs to give a transversal look at justice, thinking about the users who benefit from a work as important as the maintenance of control of public order and security.”
“This council as well as the different reform measures are understood as an institutional strengthening rather than a weakness,” he concluded.

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