The Fourth Guarantee Court of Santiago decreed this week preventive detention for the former director general of the Investigative Police, Sergio Muñoz, Due to its involvement in the Hermosilla case, it raised questions about what is happening within the high command of the civil police.
In this regard, the lawyer, ethics specialist, Rodrigo Reyes, analyzed the internal situation in the PDI with Mirna Schindler in Al Pan Pan, indicating that There is a “serious governance problem in the Investigative Police”
Reyes highlighted both the formalization of Muñoz and that of the general director of the Carabineros, Ricardo Yáñez (scheduled for May 7). “If we were in a banana country, we would not have the two police chiefs charged. The law, in some way, ends up applying to everyone“, he stated.
However, the lawyer believes that it is essential that a reform of the police be reconsidered, both for the PDI and for the Carabineros, and that they aim to “their corporate governance, and the way they deal with these issues (corruption) that are of great importance to the country.”
“We are putting our rule of law at risk”he added.
Likewise, he clarified the importance of police reform pto strengthen institutions in terms of controlling cases of corruption.
Along these lines, he maintained that something is failing in the police, since, as cases of corruption are repeated within them, “From a criminal and not a sociological point of view, we have a structural or systemic problem. “I don’t know if we have a criminal organization.”
Given this, He also called on the Government and the political class to face the challenge that arises from these incidents of corruption.