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“If General Rozas does not present his resignation, the President of the Republic should request it.” That is the diagnosis of Senator PPD Felipe Harboe about the new crisis that Carabineros is going through, aggravated by another event of police abuse such as the one registered last Friday on the Pío Nono bridge, when an officer threw a minor protester into the river bed Mapocho.
Rozas has become a headache for the Government and despite the fact that the Executive has avoided giving explicit signs of support, the Chief of Police said yesterday that “my resignation has been constantly requested, but I have a presidential mandate to fulfill.” “I owe myself to my police officers, and my duty is to continue until the President of the Republic deems it appropriate,” he declared yesterday before the Citizen Security Commission of the Chamber of Deputies where he coincided with his direct boss, the Minister of the Interior. , Víctor Pérez.
This situation, in the opinion of Senator PPD, and former Undersecretary of the Interior and Carabineros, Felipe Harboe, implies that “what General Rozas does is to endorse responsibility (for his departure) on the President of the Republic,” according to the interviewee said. tomorrow in Radio Concert.
Reform to Carabineros
In the opposition, pressure has increased for the uniformed police chief to step aside even conditional on the approval of the 2021 Budget for the institution. The panorama is aggravated, because to this is added the constitutional accusation that from the Chamber is being articulated against the Minister of the Interior Víctor Pérez.
Another issue in the arena is the postponed reform of the Carabineros. For Harboe, this issue is urgent, noting that if a reform of the police force does not begin as soon as possible, “we are going to have another incident in a while.”
It should be remembered that Harboe presented last January together with a team of experts a proposal for “structural and long-term reform” to the Carabineros, with 23 specific measures, in addition to another prepared by a commission led by the then Minister of the Interior Gonzalo Blumel.
However, there has been no progress. “I think the Government does not want to make a mess with the police, because obviously, within the institution they do not see a structural reform with good eyes,” said the senator.
Harboe added that in governments prior to Piñera’s “some reforms were attempted,” but there was a lack of political will “to move forward. “We had a permanent, systematic opposition in parliament.” The autonomy of the armed forces was part of the tacit agreements “during the transition governments, he added.
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