In a ten-hour session, Raúl Manásevich, researcher at CMM and director of the Center for Analysis and Modeling of Security (Ceamos), was invited by the Special Senate Committee on Citizen Security to present his ideas about the methods, tactics and structures used in Chile to prevent crimes.
Raul Manásevich works on projects related to predictive patterns of crime and he addressed during his exposition those issues which are key, in his opinion, to generate a long-term strategy for fighting against crime.
His presentation took place in the framework of a meeting that was held on last Monday August 4th and counted with the participation of minister of Home Affairs Rodrigo Peñailillo, minister of Justice José Antonio Gómez, President of the Supreme Court Sergio Muñoz, director of the Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Gustavo Villalobos, director general of Carabineros Gustavo González, and director of the Policía de Investigaciones Marcos Vásquez, among others. Moreover, the senators attending the session were Jaime Orpis, Hernán Larraín, Felipe Harboe, Antonio Horvath, Alfonso de Urresti and Alberto Espina, who are at the stage to analyse reforms to improve the current policies on public security.
The meeting was also attended by former government officials and representatives of other institutions that make public policies in Chile on issues such as crime and security.
“At the end of the session, senators Horvath, Harboe, Larraín and Orpis showed interest in what the University of Chile is doing in the field of Engineering and asked futher details about our proposal,” pointed out Manasevich.
Public opinion continues debating about this topic and next August 19th the CMM researcher and director of Ceamos will participate again in a seminar organized now by the Institute of Engineers of Chile, which will be held at the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of University of Chile (Beauchef 850). Under the title ‘A strategic look at public safety. Contributions from engineering ‘, this meeting will also be attended by Minister of Justice José Antonio Gómez, Deputy Secretary of Crime Prevention Antonio Frey and former minister Sergio Bitar.
