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Controversy has generated the government decree that increases the oversight capacities of municipal officials in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, since it grants powers to people who have not been prepared for these functions and in fact installs the idea of a “Municipal police”, as some opposition senators warned.
The presidential decree has been in the desk of the comptroller Jorge Bermúdez since late Friday, for his reasoning. Also before the same body, the PPD senator Felipe Harboe entered a requirement challenging the document under the argument that “the President of the Republic cannot deliver, by decree, powers that are his own, according to the Constitution, and of legal rank that correspond Parliament. “
Given this, the undersecretary of the Interior, Juan Francisco Galli, came out to defend the decree, noting that it will operate within the framework of the state of catastrophe in which the country has been since March 18, a measure in force for 90 days. “And it aims to make applicable something that is in the constitutional exception law that allows the Chief of Defense to instruct public and municipal officials to collaborate with the functions that the Chief of Defense has to fulfill. The great Limitation is the legal powers that are proper to the police, “he explained.
According to Galli, this decree will serve so that in the communes where quarantines are not being respected, municipal officials can help to control Carabineros and the Army. “There are three objectives of the law enforcement and security forces: health protection, quarantine control and curfews, and that is to make it compatible with the protection of order and security, and those 14,000 troops who are distributed throughout the country are carrying out a permanent safeguard system to monitor compliance with quarantines and that people who are moving are those who must do so or have a permit to do so, “he added in an interview with Mega.
Furthermore, he maintained that “the relationship with the mayors is permanent and that is what is relevant, having relationships.” “The interior minister created a Covid social table, the defense minister has met with the mayors and the undersecretary for crime prevention, every time a quarantine is decreed, a meeting of the interior ministry is held with all the mayors of the communes so that they know the territory and the circumstances in which the measures will be applied, “he concluded.
In the hands of the Comptroller
One of the criticisms made by parliamentarians from Congress is that this decision, as detailed in the Constitution, must be discussed by the legislators and not be made via a simple decree sent by the President of the Republic.
Due to this, Harboe (PPD) and José Miguel Insulza (PS) appealed to the Comptroller to challenge this decree. They justify this decision in that, according to them, it is illegal, they classify it as unfair and unequal, since it could increase the levels of inequality in terms of citizen security, “because only those wealthy municipalities that have financing to be able to hire municipal guards will be able to exercise them , leaving the vast majority of the poor municipalities that do not have powers to do so ”.
In this sense, it is also dangerous for the rights of citizens, since they are being given supervisory powers, individuals and even private facilities, to officials who have no preparation for it. “They are handing over powers to inspect people and business premises or even residences to personnel who do not necessarily have adequate training. Let’s think that there are security guards who study 24-hour courses; This can seriously jeopardize the freedom, security of people and human rights of the vast majority of citizens, “said Harboe.
Likewise, both parliamentarians established that they believe in coordination and cooperation between the Government and the municipalities, but that these should be done with other measures and not replacing the constitutional and permanent function of the Carabineros de Chile and the Armed Forces. in time of catastrophe.
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