Carabineros

La Segunda, Friday, January 7, 2020

Dear Director,

While I fully agree that Carabineros needs to undergo a profound modernization, I disagree with some politicians who believe that such changes require the replacement of its General Director. The adaptive changes that Carabineros needs to implement will take at least a couple of years if we want to do them properly, and they can very well be completed under the next government and under the General Director who succeeds the current one in a regular manner.

What concerns me is the government’s plan to manage public order in 2020, particularly in the coming months, and for this, it is prudent not to make further changes to General Directors and senior leadership if we want to leverage the accumulated experience and have a real capacity to provide security to Chileans. We must learn from the lessons that the last four months have provided us and apply them before public order becomes disorderly again.

Richard Kouyoumdjian Inglis