This morning the President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric signed a transversal commitment for security, work that was carried out in conjunction with the Ministry of the Interior, the regional governorates and representatives of the associations of municipalities of the country. The plan envisages empowering these institutions in the area of crime prevention, control, as well as crime prevention.
The proposals are grouped into main axes: prevention and victims; control; persecution and punishment; institutionality; and police. Meanwhile, regional governments will focus their functions on crime prevention, and victim protection and support. The municipalities, on the other hand, will see their constitutional organic law modified, strengthening their preventive role.
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In detail, the agreement signed by the aforementioned authorities regarding regional governments (GORE) proposes to give powers to their holders to draw up and design prevention plans and policies: attribution that modifies law ° 19,175.
Regional governments will also be able to participate in coordination bodies and the creation of collaboration agreements between the Ministry of the Interior and the GORE will be encouraged to design regional investment projects in crime prevention.
For their part, municipalities will have the power to incorporate security criteria into urban and territorial planning instruments. In addition, it will be sought that these institutions can strengthen community security plans taking into account the protection of victims and gender perspective.
As for municipal security inspectors, they may participate in verifying compliance with precautionary and protective measures, detain persons caught in flagrante delicto and place them at the disposal of the police; and receive complaints and coordinate security actions with the authorities. Likewise, the aggressions they suffer will be taken as an aggravated crime.
All of the above is subject to legislative modifications that the Executive intends to present in the coming months.
The plan had the work of the Executive, the Association of Regional Governors of Chile, (Agorechi), and the 3 associations of municipalities: the Chilean Association of Municipalities, AChM; the Association of Municipalities of Chile, AMUCh; and the Association of Rural Municipalities, AMUR.
In this regard, President Gabriel Boric said that the agreement “reflects the commitment of the government that is enriched by those who are present, with decentralization. The key is that it responds to the needs of each territory. In that, governors and mayors are fundamental.”
“We talk about organized crime and today we talk about the organized state to fight crime in all its dimensions. Make no mistake about the criminals: it is not only they who organize. Those of us who were elected are here to recover security and public spaces,” added the President.
Likewise, the head of state stressed the importance of focusing on the victims, in the words of the President they do not usually have specialized attention after suffering violent crimes. And he added that “I am not only thinking of the civilian victims, but also of Carabineros like Retamal, or Salazar.”
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