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Carabineros reported that last week (between May 4 and 10) arrested 2,110 people for crimes of greater social connotation, which represents an increase of more than three percent.
Despite this increase, the uniformed police assure that crimes come down in the last month, marked by curfew, quarantines, and movement restrictions.
The Inspector General Ricardo Yanez He explained that “crimes have not increased, they have only increased, when we go to disaggregation of these, some types of crimes, but there are some communes that have an increase in certain crimes “.
After knowing these figures delivered by Carabineros, David Rozowski, executive director of the Fundación Ciudadano Seguro, called for caution stating that in times of pandemic by Covid-19 “in order to report these crimes, I have to go to the police station, (better) I don’t take the risk and I’m not going to report it“
One of the communes in which an increase in certain crimes has been detected in the capital is Independencia, where its mayor, Gonzalo Durán, assured that “in the context of quarantines, crime is moving to other sectors or to other types of crimes. (…) The situation is worrying, the presence of the police in the streets and the work of police intelligence must be reinforced“
The Mayor of Linares, Mario Meza, stated that “the presidential decree that gives National Defense control of the health pandemic, the faculties are very weak and I lack a greater commitment, in my opinion, of the Ministry of the Interior, with the powers that both policemen and particularly the Army have. “
From the Government, the Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Gonzalo Blumel, pointed out that those who commit crimes on these dates “they are criminals who do not care about rules and restrictions and who are not concerned with the welfare of citizens“
The chief of staff added that “we will make every effort: we are increasing the territorial deployment of the police, we are also making progress in investigative groups that aim to break up these organized gangs and groups and we’re rolling out technologies. “
