International Conference on Advances in Nuclear Forensics - IAEA CN-218

Investigative Police of Chile: Implementation of an Action Plan to Confront of Radiological Threats.

8 Jul 2014, 13:00

1h

IAEA HQ

Poster Poster Session I

Speaker

Mr I. TROSTEL (Chile)

Description

In the global world, the national safety is a priority preference for the State of Chile, remain terrorist threats of chemical, biological or radiological nature, the most harmful, due to the victim's potential high that they can be exposed to these types of harmful agents. For that reason this threats must be works with great caution, because to in some cases, the magnitude of the fact (incident) might overcome the capacity of response of the competent entities. In this context, Police Department, Fire Department and other governmental entities as Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission (CCHEN), generated various action plans to confront the threats to radioactive materials, applying protocols in order to act, already be as primary, secondary or tertiary inspectors. In case of radioactive threat, Investigative Police of Chile (PDI), it has been an active estate, giving collaboration by means of resources and competent personnel, where the Criminalistic Laboratory has a fundamental role post incidental, resting across the crime expert investigation, how likewise delivering reliable results to achieve the later determination of reasons, origin, responsibilities, suspect's identification between others. The present work discloses the action plans of Investigative Police of Chile, confront threats that involve the presence of radioactive materials.