Caracas Daily Journal (Jeremy Morgan): Interior and Justice Minister Ramón Rodríguez Chacín said a presidential committee to set up and organize a new national police force had been formed. It included people with specialist knowledge and wide experience had been drawn from fields including the penal, police social sciences, among others, he added.
The committee would have a year in which to develop a theoretical model and design a curriculum for the new force.
Officials have said plans include recruiting people educated to higher level and university graduates.
The committee will draw up plans for studies at a national police academy, methods of teaching at the institution, selection of candidates and "internal regulation".
The minister said aspiring candidates could enter the academy with school certificates to study for a year. Courses would be equivalent to a university degree. The committee will oversee converting the Metropolitan Police (PM) into a community police force.
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This may be reform -- but it ain't socialism. Perhaps the consejos can't do all the 'policing' jobs that need to be done in a dangerous capitalist world at the moment; but what a working-class in control of its own state does not need is more "professional" bureaucrats who are not directly accountable to them. Especially armed and militarized ones.
ReplyDeleteWhat we have here is most likely still the bolivarian and even the old 4th Republic bureaucracy re-arranging the deckchairs on the old S.S. Capitalism -- and hoping that the masses won't notice that things aren't really going to change too much with these sorts of measures...
Lose the police -- arm the consejos.