The National Government, under the strategic direction of outgoing Minister Patricia Bullrich and her designated successor Alejandra Monteoleva, is promoting an ambitious reform of the Ministry of Security. The main goal is to expand the powers and competencies of the portfolio by creating an immigration police, with the US Department of Homeland Security (Homeland Security) as a reference.
One of the most immediate changes is the transfer of control from the General Directorate of Migration to the Security Zone. An “immigration police”, whose members will be trained as security forces, will be created to replace current civil servants. The measure seeks to professionalize surveillance at legal and illegal entry points, noting, for example, the inability of civilian agents to detain people under Interpol alerts.
The “new” Ministry of Security will not focus only on the border. Its powers will also cover what is there “Cybersecurity”This is a function that today overlaps with the Secretariat of State Intelligence (SIDE). terrorismor to combat potential terrorist threats within the national territory, and Risk detectionMonitoring and discovering risks through social media networks and the Internet.
The project also includes a deep restructuring of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA), which is planned to create an elite body dedicated to investigating complex crimes at the federal level, taking the FBI as a model.
In order to free up human and economic resources, provinces will seek to take responsibility for railway patrolling.
Both Bullrich and his successor, Alejandra Monteoleva, have the support of Casa Rosada, including Santiago Caputo and Karina Miley, to implement this massive reform that promises to redraw the national security map. The project would require support from Congress to amend the laws and could generate resistance in other state agencies whose functions would be affected.