Government Introduces Bill That Seeks to Regulate Rules for the Use of Force in Police and Public Order Procedures

The government of President Gabriel Boric presented the bill that seeks to regulate the Rules of the Use of Force (RUF) in police and public order procedures. In this way, its entry into the Chamber of Deputies materialized.
The news had been advanced by the Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, and later confirmed by the head of Justice, Luis Cordero. The foregoing, within the framework of publication in the Official Gazette of the Naín-Retamal Law, which seeks to deliver a statute of legal protection to police, gendarmes and Armed Forces to use their service weapon.
From Congress, Minister Cordero said that “the rules of the use of force give certainties to everyone, to citizens, to the police and to judges. They have general principles and a large part of their operation is related to the protocols that are approved by regulation.”
In that sense, the initiative seeks to update the rules and standards in force in relation to the use of force, elevating the current normative rank to a legal-legal status. Likewise, the measure seeks to complement the Criminal Code and the Military Justice Code, introducing a series of specific protocols that, until now, were issued by the Carabineros through circulars.
From Interior specified that, if approved, the initiative will have a complementary “fusion” with the promulgated norms of the Naín-Retamal Law. “It establishes as exemptions the legitimate defense and the fulfillment of duty, in accordance with the recently approved initiative,” they pointed out from the portfolio, according to Radio Biobío.
It should be noted that the presentation of this reform was the Government’s original plan to introduce modifications to the rules on the use of force in the context of police procedures. However, after the murders of Carabineros officials, the Executive changed its strategy and led it to discuss these changes through the merger of two parliamentary motions that did not have the support of La Moneda. Which led to the Naín-Retamal Law.

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