Starting this Tuesday, 1,500 cadets Second and third years of the Córdoba Police Officer and Non-Commissioned Officer schools take to the streets.
According to the provincial government, They will not carry firearms, although they will be uniformed and equipped with Byrna guns, which launch non-lethal rubber pellets or pepper spray capsules.
Based on a decree signed by Governor Martín Llaryora and Minister of Security Juan Pablo Quinteros, street practices will be mandatory for second and third year cadets of the Libertador General San Martín Officer School and agent candidates. second and third year of the General Manuel Belgrano Non-Commissioned Officers School.
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“This already exists in the Police curriculum. What happens is that now a special program is created, with a special scholarship. The second and third year cadets will be the first with 20 hours per week, the second with 30 hours per week at do this professional practice on the street that will be more intensive, which they will do with non-lethal weapons, with the Byrna weapons, which the Police of the province of Córdoba are already using,” Quinteros explained in dialogue with Chain 3.
And he added: “The Police will surely use it for preventive patrol in non-critical areas, of course, but it is part of what street training is. We are going to get 1,500 in total, of which more than 800 in the next quarter “In the next five months they will be on the streets with full status and it seems to me that it is an important step for the purposes of training the police already in the territory.”
In addition to the increase in police personnel, there were also 230 new patrol cars that will reinforce preventive patrolling. “There are 230 new patrol cars throughout the province, we think that is absolutely important,” highlighted the Minister.
The official presentation takes place this Tuesday morning in Parque Sarmiento, on Avenida Nores Martínez between Av. Cruz Roja and the Ciudad Universitaria roundabout.
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Report by Federico Borello.
