The Dirección de Investigación y Evaluación de la Carrera Policial (DIECP) has reportedly issued a press release stating that the 24 police officers of all ranks who have not submitted to the proof of confidence testing required by the DIECP will probably be fired.
The DIECP reported that none of the 24 had provided a reason for not showing up for their scheduled appointment. The DIECP press release points out that this is disobedience of a superior's order, punishable with dismissal according to the police charter.
The files on these 24 police officers will be turned over to the police chief, Juan Carlos Bonilla, for disposition.
Proceso Digital reports that the DIECP has attempted to review 169 police officials, most of them members of the highest levels of command. Of these, 145 have submitted to the exam, and 24 refused. That is a rate of resistance to the campaign to excise corruption of about 14%.
The DIECP has not released the results of the confidence test on any of the 145 who have taken it so far, so the actual proportion of police officers who do not meet the requirements is not (yet) known.
The DIECP hopes to have conducted over 400 confidence tests by the end
of 2012, and over 5000 in the next three years.
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