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operandi, allowing to focus on the police work for stopping, early detection or investigations of
crimes.
According to this, an approach that came to benefit and enrich the work guidelines that were
followed by the institution Records Management System (RMS) until that moment, and also to give
a new and better use of the data registration system and the geographic information that was being
implemented in Carabineros de Chile for a while along with a modern platform of technological
support that had national coverage at that time.
Important efforts were added in terms of human resources, that have meant the training of officers
and non-commissioned officers –along with other professions that belong to the engineering,
cartographic and geographic areas – besides the incorporation of social, statistical, and geographical
civil analysts selected, trained and certified by the Criminal Analysis Department, to be distributed
to the Operations Offices of the different police stations along the country.
This was done in the context of reinforcing the main operative strategy of Carabineros de Chile: the
Prescint Plan of
Preventive Security
(Plan Cuadrante), police
work methodology
created by the institution,
with the incorporation of
the criminal analysis in
the design of strategy
and tactics to process
territorial information
and define services, that
has enriched and
improved substantially
by allowing the
focalization of services
more efficiently.
Traffic control By this way, many and
continuous steps have been included in the path of criminal analysis involvement in all level of
management, that started from strategic aspect. Today it is also present in the tactical one, where
important evidence exists about the transcendence of producing sensitive and valuable information
to make an efficient distribution of the human and logistic resources available; to prevent, to
investigate and to clear crimes, to arrest criminals and deactivate criminal gangs, and then to be able
to give a better response to the demands of security matters to the community.
It is essential to continue advancing in that direction in the current world where a diverse, complex,
dynamic and criminal reality challenges the police forces to improve its different processes by
means of inclusion of the criminal theories inclusion in force, of those elements of policing models
that are appropriate in each organizational cultural and idiosyncrasy and methodologies

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