The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, insisted on Thursday that his government will take more consistent measures to attack crime in the country.
Boric has stressed that the State’s obligation is to «carry out a much stronger task» in terms of fighting crime, due to the public’s fear of it.
«That people stop doing things because they are afraid, obliges us as a State to carry out a task with much more strength», said the president in a speech at the inauguration of the Cybercrime Department of the Investigation Police.
«I see that the Investigative Police is in a permanent effort to update itself and take charge of the challenges that new times bring», Boric admitted after explaining that «criminals are not static», so the agents have «to anticipate as well».
According to Cadem polls published last weekend, Chile’s citizens indicated that the President’s approval rating had dropped 13 points in the last four weeks, reaching 26 percent popularity.
On the other hand, citizens considered that the areas that should have more weight in the decision making of Boric’s Executive are crime, public order and drug trafficking, with 61 percent; economy, with 35 percent; health with 27 or migration with 20.
In this sense, the Chilean leader has emphasized this Thursday that his citizens «have the right to live in a safe country without fear», since «in a state of law, violence is unacceptable».
«We have to recover public spaces from crime and that has to be a joint work, led by the State», said the head of state.
Thus, Boric regretted the fear of the population «because it makes us go backwards: When the State goes backwards, when civil society goes backwards, the narco advances, crime advances».
The creation of the Cybercrime of the Chilean Police will make it possible to implement an institutional strategy to deal with crimes associated with cybercrime, in order to remedy the need for technology and adequate infrastructure, reports the newspaper ‘BiobioChile’.
In addition, Boric, who has stressed the importance of this matter for his cabinet, has asked the media to contribute to report objectively on this matter.
