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The first policing organization with the name "Carabiniers" was the Corps of Carabineros, in Spanish Cuerpo de Carabineros (with similar meaning as the Italian Carabinieri), formed in 1903 to bring law and order to the conflictive Araucanía region of Southern Chile (then much larger than today's region), formerly the Gendarme Corps, which ...
The Chilean Gendarmerie (Spanish: Gendarmería de Chile), (abbreviated to GENCHI) is the title of Chile's uniformed national prison service military. The service evolved when Chilean Army units were given police and prison duties under president Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, a move that also created the Carabineros de Chile police force.
This article lists the general directors of Carabineros de Chile. Carabineros de Chile (transl. Carabiniers of Chile) are the Chilean national police force, who have jurisdiction over the entire national territory of Chile, and dates back to 1927. The current General Director is General Ricardo Yáñez.
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Chile also has a force of gendarme carabiniers, the Carabineros de Chile, and the National Police of Colombia has mobile road-based units called Mobile Carabinier Squadrons. The Belgian Land Component includes a Regiment des Carabiniers , which saw service against the German invaders in August 1914 still dressed in its 19th century uniform ...
Chile has a world-renowned museum of memory that commemorates Pinochet’s victims. The stadium where Jara was held carries his name. But the General’s bloody rule still haunts Chileans.
The modern Investigations Police was established in 1933 as a separate organization of civil police, independent from the control of the militarized Carabineros de Chile. In March 2011, fence and arms dealer Italo Nolli shot and killed PDI detectives Marcelo Morales and Kiram Gallardo, the latter of which thus became the first female PDI member ...
The President of Chile is the commander-in-chief of the military, and formulates policy through the Minister of Defence. In recent years and after several major reequipment programs, the Chilean Armed Forces have become one of the most technologically advanced and professional armed forces in Latin America . [ 4 ]