[News] Security in the elections: protection of votes, protection of “critical areas” and more than 19 thousand police deployed

[FNX Magokiler]

A fourth consecutive election will have to take place, this weekend, Carabineros. In 2020 the elections were held to open the first constitutional process; in 2021, the presidential elections, and in 2022, the exit vote on the first proposal. And this December 17, whether the new Magna Carta will be approved or not, will be settled.

Each of these votes required a security deployment by the Carabineros and the Armed Forces. The authorization of voting locations, as well as preventing threats or disorders, are part of the tasks of the uniformed personnel, who this year will once again be in charge of the process.

Carabineros will have more than 19 thousand troops deployed nationwide, who will be in charge of a staff created to coordinate their functions. To this end, meetings have already been held with the Ministry of the Interior and the Police High Command to set priorities for the day.

In these conversations, three guidelines were defined: the safeguarding of votes, from when they leave the Servel, arrive at the premises and return to the Service. All of this will have a special escort, who will be in charge of preventing any leakage of the ballots, as well as the containers where they will be stored.

Another focus will be on the polling stations: three security rings will be deployed there to avoid excesses or situations that could alter public order.

 

 

Carabineros will always be abroad, given that inside the mission will be entrusted only to the Armed Forces, especially the Army.

From this last institution they reported that “within the framework of the development of the 2023 Constitutional Plebiscite this Sunday, December 17, the Army will deploy 14,240 troops in 2,002 voting precincts throughout the country, all within the regulatory framework of the Constitutional Organic Law 18,700 on Po[CENSORED]r Votes and Scrutinies, which in its article 112 establishes the provisions to protect public order. Particularly in the Metropolitan Region there will be 4,813 members of the Army, who will be deployed in 656 precincts. The troops will be under the command of the Chief of Forces of the Region, Major General Alejandro Ciuffardi.”

Special plans with authorities
There will be almost 3 thousand voting locations, where depending on whether there are authorities who are going to vote, special security plans will be activated. This happens in the case of President Gabriel Boric, as well as ministers and former leaders, who also always attend with their respective bodyguards.

The perseverance of those who excuse themselves from paying will also be something that Carabineros will attend to. Although the Virtual Police Station will be enabled, that will be the first step to verify that a person will not vote, given that on the same day of the vote, they will also have to go to a police station to demonstrate that they are unable, due to distance, to vote. defray.

 

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