The Municipality of Chillán began work on the ground to update the Communal Public Safety Plan that seeks, through a citizen survey, to renew background information that will allow improving the plans and policies applied in the city.
Mayor Camilo Benavente Jiménez highlighted that “the Communal Plan is a guiding instrument for the actions we carry out in a key and priority area such as citizen security and is part of the strategic planning of our city.”
The mayor commented that the renewal of this report “will be carried out through a survey that will be applied between January 5 and 19 in all the quadrants into which the city is divided so that it is representative of all the sectors that make up our community.”
The Director of Public Security, Alejandra Martínez Jeldres, stressed that “we are going to be deployed throughout the city applying surveys, where officials from the Directorate of Public Security and Municipal Inspection will participate with their respective credentials in a fiscal vehicle.”
Alejandra Martínez explained that people who have questions regarding the application of the survey can call 42 2 771096 or 42 2 433308.
Regarding the objectives sought, he specified that “we want to collect, for example, how the community is involved in matters of security, what are the protective factors that they effectively see in each of their sectors, as well as the risk factors and how we can overcome them. jointly”.
Additionally, he stressed, “we want to know the relationship that neighbors have with different actors in terms of security regarding victimization and we also want to collect data on those crimes that are not reported. We have the official data, the objective data, but there are also crimes that people do not report.”
The interesting thing about the survey, in addition to serving to know how the feeling of security in the city has evolved, is that it will allow us to evaluate “the different strategies that we are going to develop over a four-year horizon.”