Cold War of the Public Safety

COLD WAR PUBLIC SAFETY .- In: Müller Hugo Enrique Solon mullerabogados@hotmail.com As we remember was called "Cold War? confrontation that existed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1945 to World War II until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. This confrontation took place at the political, ideological, economic, technological, military and informative. None of the two blocks direct military action ever took against the other, which is why the conflict was called "Cold War". The issue would have no greater significance if it were not for this foreign concept gave rise to a rigid national defense doctrine adopted by many countries, including Peru and incredibly effective to this day, is, that despite having finished For over 20 years the "cold war?, lack of genuine national security doctrine, and continue to see security in terms of internal enemies and external enemies that threaten the stability against the state. By persisting structures and concepts underlying this doctrine is built up a notion completely foreign to the life of human beings and the needs of ordinary citizens. This obsolete concept ignores the legitimate concerns of ordinary people seeking to be secure in their daily lives, giving priority to the concerns and intentions of the State according to their particular interests.

The most serious, is that the authorities are responding to the problems affecting the coexistence and citizen security, based on principles and assumptions of the doctrine of national security, excessively centralized in the executive branch (Home Office) the responsibilities to "fight the enemy within?, which are no longer functional, unaware that the manifestations of insecurity have local characteristics. In this way, is preserved in institutions such as the National Police, isolated from the community structures and optical address these problems with police eminently without recognizing the multiple thereof and the need for comprehensive responses, in which they must have the active participation of local authorities, much of the Mayors priority, with whom undoubtedly should share these responsibilities. Something happens in practice. In parallel, we see the executive branch bent on entering a new "cold war? in its national version, the "cold war of public safety?, pitting two factions, the National Police and Local Authorities to contribute instead to recognize the local authority as a leader in public safety, providing all the advice and technical support required to assume the conduct of policies and strategies most appropriate to local security problem, as already legislated.