According to Interior Minister Carolina Tohá, the aim is to sign an agreement with mayors, governors, and parliamentarians before the year ends to advance parallel in administrative and legislative matters.

One of the purposes is to form a new Ministry of Public Security that directly collaborates with President Gabriel Boric in safeguarding order, prevention, social reinsertion, attention to victims, and citizen coexistence.

The initiative includes more than 30 measures for institutional strengthening, governance, and crime prevention.

These include a reform for Chile’s national police, Carabineros, which include training and strengthening of the agency.

According to Plaza Pública Cadem pollster, published this week, 61 percent of those polled consider that the fight against crime and drug trafficking should be the Government’s priority, ahead of other issues such as inflation (35 percent) and health (27 percent).

The president also announced an increase in the budget to reinforce the Carabineros’ work and purchase more than 1,000 new police vehicles across the country.

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