Learn about the five key areas of the cross-cutting commitment to security

Chile’s government has presented the long-awaited security roadmap as part of a cross-cutting commitment alongside parliamentarians, mayors and governors. It aims to face the issue in a concrete manner, in order to give a rapid response to citizen demands for greater security. 

It is the result of a joint effort developed around five key areas that include more than 70 measures. In this regard, Interior and Public Security Minster Carolina Tohá stated, “we have a clear roadmap to reinforce regional and municipal work on matters of security, in a coordinated, collaborative way alongside the national government (…) It has been forged by feeding on the contributions of all political forces. We hope that this proposal receives comments and observations in February to transform it into a formal document that hopefully will have the support of those parties that were not present today.” 

At the beginning of March, President Gabriel Boric will sign this commitment with regional and community leaders to achieve a better deployment of the State throughout Chile in matters of prevention. 

Learn about the five key areas of the cross-cutting commitment made today, as well as some of the more than 70 agreements 

1. Prevention and victims 

• We will strengthen the preventive role of municipalities by modifying their organic law. 
• We will endow regional governments with powers in crime prevention and victim support. 
• We will extend the Lazos (Ties) program from 56 to 95 municipalities to prevent crime among children and adolescents. 
• We will make amendments to the private security bill to strengthen coordination with the police and co-responsibility with private parties: greater security in banks and large-scale events; prevention of assaults on retail outlets; regulation of motorcycles and delivery services. 
• We will implement the Public Spaces Recovery Plan in coordination between the government, municipalities and regional governments. 
• We will make amendments to the bill to create a Victim Support Service to grant a higher standard of legal representation to victims of more violent crimes. 

2. Control

• During February 2023, a decree law will be issued to grant specialized capacities to police and Armed Forces personnel in charge of border control: identity controls; registration of people; and arrests. 

3. Persecution and sanction 

• We will sanction preparatory acts of contract killings, expand the general definition of extortion and increase penalties for kidnapping. 
• We will submit a bill complementary to the organized crime bill, which lifts banking confidentiality when there is a suspicion of this type of crime. 

4. Institutional structure 

• We will provide more resources to strengthen the Public Prosecutor’s Office and create supra-territorial prosecutor’s offices (for example, Northern Macrozone) to investigate complex crimes. 
• We will update the intelligence system to ensure civil control, leadership and coordination. 
• We will provide operational capacities to the National Intelligence Agency (ANI), which will operate under the future Security Ministry. 

5. Police forces 

We will increase the number of Policía de Investigaciones (Investigative Police Service, PDI): professional police officers, regular detectives and police assistants. 

We will increase the number of Carabineros (Uniformed Police Service) in service by 900. 

You can find details of the document below.