Housing Thefts Increase by 21.6% in the Metropolitan Region During the First Five Months of the Year - La Tercera

On the early morning of Friday, May 16, a Carabineros official was at his house in Maipú when he heard noises. When he went out to look, he was attacked by a group of criminals who were trying to steal the house, something they finally achieved. However, it is not an isolated event. The official’s case joins a group of similar situations that have occurred during the last few weeks. Without going further, at the beginning of the month, in the sa…

After the decision to make the reports quarterly since the middle of last year and with a delay of almost two months, the Municipal Center for Strategic Crime Analysis (CeMAED) released the first quarterly report: compared to the previous one, house theft grew by twenty percent in the city. The report, which presents almost no comparative elements with the previous ones and breaks down only the partial of each month, reported 331 thefts and thef…

Information from the Police Operation Tactical System (STOP) of Carabineros alerts of worrying figures for the Metropolitan Region and, specifically, for the Oriente sector of Santiago. This is because so far this year - until 18 May - there have been 4,383 police cases of theft in a place inhabited in the capital. What is worrying comes because the figures of the uniformed police report that, at the same date last year, this type of crime reach…

The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon and affected a Huepil Tension staff sergeant, who was shot in one leg by the antisocial.

A violent robbery affected a uniformed police officer, who while he was mobilizing with a friend was intercepted by a vehicle and shot by criminals, who then fled the place in an unknown direction in the commune of Tucapel. It all happened around 5:00 p.m., when a carabinieri who was in civilian status was mobilized in her vehicle along an inner road in the town of Huépil with a companion. There, she was intercepted by a car from where two crimi…