President Gabriel Boric stated that if the Armed Forces. might perform “certain tasks” to make interventions, the Government would be available to evaluate and implement that.

In any case, he was emphatic in pointing out that “the military is not trained to control public order, therefore it is not the job of the military to be in the towns carrying out public order control tasks because that corresponds to the police.” .

“It seems to me that this issue must be settled now, the military cannot perform a task equivalent to the police,” Boric remarked.

However, he specified that if it were possible to have an “agreement on a debate that has taken place in other countries regarding certain tasks that might eventually be covered by the military who free police officers to be able to carry out interventions such as the one carried out in Maipú, we are fully available not only to evaluate it but to implement it with all the requirements demanded by the law.”

On the other hand, the president responded to Evelyn Matthei’s criticism, pointing out that it has been possible to “significantly reduce the entry of migrants through irregular passages and it seems that they did not want to recognize it either. Remember the conditions in which they handed over the country, particularly in these matters, how violence was unleashed in the central-southern area, how the borders were unprotected.”

In any case, he said that from his point of view the security situation “is indeed serious because there have been gangs that have settled in Chile and have carried out crimes of tremendous violence” and that is why the conditions of the Carabineros have improved. , For example.