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THE CRIMINAL ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT OF

“CARABINEROS DE CHILE”

The history of the Chilean police labor, and
particularly Carabineros de Chile, shows how
different kind of measures has been created and
undertaken as the time goes by to face the problem of
criminality, considering the knowledge generated at
institutional and national level, as well as, the
approach and models developed and applied in other
countries, which have been adapted to the Chilean
reality.
According to that spirit of permanent progress and
improvement, that has different examples as the early
creation of specialized areas or the introduction of
concepts in police procedures that belong to the main
models of policing in force, during 2011 Carabineros
adopted the decision to incorporate the criminal
analysis in the strategic, operative and tactical levels
of its management, in order to face criminality, that was very high at that moment, therefore the
impact expected results was not been achieved, considering the increase in human and logistic
resources.
Such decision was concreted through the creation of “the Criminal Analysis Department” (DAC),
which has included, in its
most diverse aspects,
this methodology of
work in the operative
culture of the institution
considering the clearest
consciousness that this
criminal activity is not
operating randomly and
that must be analysis
from a multidisciplinary
perspective, over the
territorial and temporary
factors involved,
characteristics of victims,
perpetrators and modus
Carabineros Corps celebrating its “Foundation Day” in Santiago

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