General Yáñez intervenes before the Senate and asks that the police under precautionary measures not lose their salary



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The role of the police, especially the Carabineros, during the social crisis it has been strongly questioned. For the same, a reform of the uniformed institution was accelerated and deepened, which contemplates substantive changes regarding the training of police officers, as well as the adaptation of their protocols for the use of force.

The magnifying glass in the police actions brought some internal noises in part of the lower-ranking police officers, who ask for greater protection for the work of the uniformed men. That is why the government introduced a bill that seeks to protect the actions of the police, Gendarmerie and the Armed Forces (FF.AA).

The initiative is in the Senate, has “immediate discussion” and yesterday the Senate Security Committee invited to present to the general director of the Carabineros, Ricardo Yáñez, who took office on November 19, after the departure of General (R) Mario Rozas.

Yáñez spoke about the need to have the bill and thus protect the police work of the Carabineros, increasing the sanctions for those who attack the uniformed. However, he not only spoke of what is necessary to advance in this matter, but also addressed the judicial processes that are followed against the police and how these affect the salaries of the official.

The director general began by addressing the matter from the point of view of the role of the institutions of order. “What we need today are legal norms that clearly support the work of the Carabineros or the Investigative Police (PDI) and Gendarmerie personnel, so that when they are attacked, seriously injured or attacked and they must use the means that the state has provided them to be able to fulfill their function, both for self-defense, for a third party or for the restoration of public order, they do not end up being charged as perpetrators of crimes or as a danger to society that they swore to defend with their lives, “he said. .

Immediately afterwards, the high official stated that “the truth is that in recent times, and that is why it is so pertinent to legislate on the matter, it seems that every time the police have had to intervene in the exercise of their functions, they end up being accused, formalized, and many of them end up with precautionary measures. Only to point out that when they impose the measure of house arrest on a carabinero, the carabinero loses his salary, remains without receiving his remuneration and his family group is completely devoid of the support that he has to deliver. It is so necessary to legislate in this regard, that this will allow the police to perform their work in a better way ”.

This intervention has circulated in the last hours among groups of officers and non-commissioned officers. Sources consulted indicated that they take these words as a positive signal towards “the troops”, since they consider that during the social outbreak they were left alone in the face of the legal situations they faced. In fact, the outgoing director general Mario Rozas, shortly before leaving his post, had started an internal campaign to reinforce morale within the institution.

According to the background of the institution, Currently there are 31 officials who are under preventive detention or total house arrest, who cannot work and are without pay. Current legislation contemplates that since the police officer is not working -because he is serving a precautionary measure without being able to go out to work- he should not be paid.

The last case of connotation occurred on November 20, when Second Sergeant John Mograve was placed in preventive detention after being formalized for shooting at a Sename center in Talcahuano, while, according to his defense, he was attacked by minors. As a result of this fact, two teenagers were left with gunshot wounds. This case was the one that ended up costing Mario Rozas his job.

General Yáñez, in addition, also made another suggestion to advance the bill. Now, regarding the carabinieri who suffer serious injuries when they are in public order and are left with serious health risks. In this sense, the general director stated that “when an official is injured with some disability to return to work, a disability pension is effectively opened, but many times it is insufficient for the costs that are associated with illness or sequelae.”

The senior official added that “we believe that in some way the State should take charge of these cases, which are exceptional, where this person should be covered for treatment for life.”

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