The Interior Minister has made a delivery of 42 vehicles to the Policía de Investigaciones (Investigative police service, PDI), fulfilling the government's commitment to provide greater security to Chilean families.

Interior Minister Carolina Tohá, together with Interior Undersecretary Luis Cordero and the director general of the PDI, Eduardo Cerna, participated in the ceremony to present the new vehicles. These resources will strengthen the control of weapons, micro-trafficking and organized crime.

The vehicles delivered include 4x4 pickup trucks and SUVs with security bars, beacons and sirens. Twelve of the vehicles are part of the budget program against organized crime and the other 30 are part of the Territorial Model Zero program.

Today in Chile, of all the cases in which we have seized drugs, 30% come from Denuncia Seguro (Safe Complaint) reports, and we want to achieve the same thing with weapons," Carolina Tohá, Interior Minister.

The above programs are aimed at investigating weapons and the illicit assets of criminal gangs, as well as micro-trafficking and its impact on neighborhood security. Three armored vehicles will also be delivered for use by the PDI in the southern macro-zone.

In this regard, Interior Minister Carolina Tohá stressed that "these vehicles serve to reinforce something that has been a priority at this time, which is to provide institutions with the capabilities, technologies, resources, training and personnel to confront the scourge that is organized crime."

The minister reported that this year the PDI received more than $5 billion pesos (US$5.3 million) as part of the budget program against organized crime to acquire computers, equipment to identify drugs, equipment to trace cryptocurrency, software to search digital networks, forensic systems for digital data extraction, body cameras, drones and hydraulic kits for break-ins.

Specialty center for Carabineros in Arica

Minister Tohá traveled to Arica this Tuesday, where she inaugurated the specialty center for Carabineros.

The space covers 3,500 m2 and has received an investment of more than $7 billion pesos (US$7.4 million). It will house the Criminalistics Laboratory (LABOCAR), the Vehicle and Person Assignment and Search Service (SEBV) and the Criminal Organizations Investigation Section OS9.

With these new facilities, more than 50 officials will have a modern and suitable workplace to reinforce the security strategy in the region.