Former Interior Undersecretary Víctor Ramos hit back at Undersecretary for Crime Prevention Ana Victoria Quintana, who criticized the previous government for leaving police morally unsupported. Ramos described her statements as false and reckless, pointing to overwhelming evidence of police strengthening under President Gabriel Boric. The exchange arises amid debates on security policies.
Undersecretary for Crime Prevention Ana Victoria Quintana criticized the previous government's security management in an interview with La Tercera. “They left the police alone, disarmed them—and I don’t mean with weapons, I mean morally. They didn’t nourish them regarding what exercising police functions meant and the respect they should receive,” she stated.
Quintana added that the current government focuses on targeted public policies, unlike the previous one, “because we consider that the previous government did it wrong”.
In response, former Interior Undersecretary Víctor Ramos posted on X that “the evidence in favor of the strengthening of the police that we carried out from President Gabriel Boric’s government is overwhelming and it’s not worth discussing such a false and reckless assertion”.
Ramos warned that Quintana unnecessarily exposes the police to public debates, similar to the PDI case, and concluded: “It’s a shame that whoever claims to be the moral beacon for the police exposes them unnecessarily for political and ideological whims”.
