Crisis of the carabineers of Chile: resignation of the director general

The CEO of Carabinieri of Chile, Mario rozas, I resigned today after a police operation during which two minors were shot and wounded on Wednesday in the town of Talcahuano, 500 kilometers south of Santiago.

The president of Chile, Sebastin Piera, said he accepted the resignation of Rozas and announced General Ricardo Yez, as the new chief of police, to whom he had entrusted his first task to the institution’s head.

We have entrusted him with a very special commission to promote with total commitment and will the modernization of chile police, which is totally necessary, the president said.

Piera announced that the Minister of Interior and Public Security, Rodrigo Delgado, will travel to Talcahuano, in the Biobo region, to deal with the situation and expressed his solidarity with the children, members of the family and police who were injured.

The trigger for the output of Rozas It took place on Wednesday afternoon, when police officers entered the Carlos Macera center, an organization attached to the National Service for Minors (Sename) in Talcahuano (central Chile) and, in events yet to be clarified, fired their regulation weapons and as a result two minors were shot and wounded.

A few minutes after the resignation, a demonstration developed in front of the headquarters of the Carabinieri, a few meters from the presidential palace of La Moneda, in the center of Santiago, with slogans such as the dissolution of Carabinieri a.

The director of the National Institute of Human Rights of Chile, Sergio Micco, mentioned in a video, posted on the organization’s social networks, at the exit of Rozas of Carabinieri as a chronicle announced with the departure of three ministers of the interior and of public security over the past two years, as well as the retirement of dozens of police officers and demanding the implementation of an urgent reform of the institution .

Micco asked the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security to fully assume its powers to carry out this comprehensive reform of the police which, in his opinion, should begin to review its doctrine; its hierarchical organic structure; education and initial and continuing training, selection mechanisms, promotions and retirements and, above all, the emphasis on human rights.