Abstract
The following article tries to analyze the transformation of the Salvadoran police from the implications of the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Agreements. In this way, the 25 years between 1992 and 2017 are taken as the period of study, in order to observe the level of transformation experienced by the new National Civil Police. Making use of an in-depth legislative review and different in-depth interviews, the article analyses in particular the scope and meaning of three dimensions in this transformation: police selection and training, the degree of delimitation of the police function and the foundations of the police career. Thus, while it is true that important progress has been made, it is possible to find shortcomings and weaknesses that persit, after more than two decades, in a way that is so worrying that it must be resolved.
Translated title of the contribution | Lights and shadows in the professionalization of the national civil police of El Salvador after the peace agreement of Chapultepec (1992-2017). |
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Original language | Spanish |
Pages (from-to) | 131-157 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Revista UNISCI |
Volume | 2021 |
Issue number | 55 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2021 |