The Minister of the Interior, Izkia Siches, announced on Thursday changes in the requirements to enter the Carabineros and presented the members of the commission and the advisory unit for the Reform (UCR) of the police.
“I want to announce that we will modify the restrictions that currently exist to enter the Carabineros de Chile. Today people with cavities, with flat feet or who measure less than required can not be admitted by Carabineros de Chile, nor can people who have tattoos, even if these are not visible. That’s going to change,” Siches said from La Moneda.
“These exclusion criteria will no longer be applied in the admission process of Carabineros de Chile schools for this 2023, through these changes we will be able to increase the acceptance of applicants in a selection process, but also that our police are a mirror of what is a diverse society and that also has modifications and does not pretend to be absolutely homogeneous, ” added the head of Interior.
In that line, he commented that “a few days ago we saw in the media how a young woman could not access the Carabineros School for only a few centimeters in height. With the changes we will make and from 2023, Javiera will be able to be part of it and, obviously, be a public servant as appropriate.”
Reform, commission and advisory unit
The Government indicated that the reform has five key principles:
Subordination to civil authority.
Gender approach.
Human rights approach.
Transparency and probity.
Police effectiveness.
The reform will have two instances of work: the commission and the consultative unit. The first will have an advisory role to fulfill the mandate to modernize the police. The second, meanwhile, will contribute to the design and implementation of police reform from the experience of each representative of civil society.
The Council shall be composed of the following persons:
Minister of the Interior, Izkia Siches.
Minister of Finance, Mario Marcel.
Minister of Justice, Marcela Ríos.
Minister of Women, Antonia Orellana.
Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve.
General director of the Carabineros, Ricardo Yáñez.
Director General of the Investigation Police (PD), Sergio Muñoz.
The commission also has the following permanent guests:
President of the Supreme Court, Juan Eduardo Fuentes.
National Prosecutor, Jorge Abbott.
Comptroller General, Jorge Bermúdez.
Director(s) of the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH), Consuelo Contreras.
Defender of Children, Patricia Muñoz.
According to La Tercera, the Consultative Unit will be made up of these members:
Alejandra Mohor, University of Chile.
Pablo Carvacho, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Olga Espinoza, University of Chile.
Alejandra Lunecke, Alberto Hurtado University.
Felipe González, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants.
Daniel Johnson, Citizen Peace Foundation.
Lina Marmolejo, IDB Citizen Security.
Senator José Miguel Insulza, Senate Security Committee.
Deputy Raúl Leiva, Security Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
Rodrigo Bustos, Amnesty International.
Guillermo Herrera, Democracy and Community Center.
René Jofré, Foundation for Democracy.
Hugo Espinoza, Equality Institute.
Galvarino Araneda, Alejandro Lipshutz Institute of Sciences.
Felipe Fontecilla, Rumbo Colectivo.
Flavia Ferretti, Node XXI.
María Teresa Urrutia, Jaime Guzmán Foundation.
Luis Pardo, Instituto Libertad.
Governor Pablo Silva, National Association of Regional Governors.
Ronald von der Weth, former executive secretary for the reform of the Carabineros.
Carolina Leitao, mayor of Peñalolén and president of the Chilean Association of Municipalities.
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