Carabineros de Chile School
| Carabineros School "General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo" | |
|---|---|
| Escuela de Carabineros "General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo" | |
Carabineros School | |
| Active | 19 December 1908 – present |
| Country | Chile |
| Allegiance | Carabineros de Chile |
| Branch | Carabineros de Chile |
| Type | Higher Education Institution of the Forces of Order and Security |
| Role | Officer training |
| Headquarters | Providencia, Santiago, Chile |
| March | Himno de la Escuela de Carabineros |
| Anniversaries | 19 December |
| Website | Official website |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander | Colonel Cristian Acevedo Yáñez |
The Carabineros School "General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo" is a higher education, police and military institution. Its primary mission is the design, development, and implementation of the initial educational training process for Officers of the institution.[1]
History
The Carabineros School was created by Supreme Decree on December 19, 1908, thanks to the efforts of Commander Roberto Dávila Baeza,[2] under the name School of Army Carabineros (Escuela de Carabineros del Ejército). Its mission was to train Non-Commissioned Officers, Corporals, and Troops of the "Cuerpo de Carabineros", a group of regiments and cavalry squadrons of the Chilean Army under the command of the Ministry of the Interior, mainly dedicated to securing roads, railways, and rural areas. The corps gradually gained prestige and autonomy. The following year, a course for Officer Candidates was created.[1]
Eleven years later, in 1919, the first Organic Law of the Carabineros Corps was enacted. It defined the corps as "a military institution tasked with maintaining order throughout the territory of the Republic, particularly in the countryside and public roads", dependent on the Ministry of the Interior and henceforth independent from the Army.[3]
Its first director was Cavalry Major Francisco Flores Ruiz, who also wrote the lyrics of the Carabineros of Chile Anthem[4] and was the father of composer Francisco Flores del Campo.
Following the merger of the Carabineros Corps (military) with the fiscal and municipal police (civil), which gave rise to Carabineros de Chile,[5][6] the school became responsible for training and advancing the officers of the new institution.[7][8]
In 1968, through Law No. 16.811 of the Republic, approved by the Senate on April 10, the name was officially changed to Carabineros School of General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, in memory of the two-time President of the Republic and founder of the institution, General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, who also served as the school's director during the 1920s while holding the rank of Major of Cavalry.[1][9]
Academic training
Students at the school receive the rank of "Aspirant to Officer", different from the Cadets of the Chilean Armed Forces.[10]
The school trains both Officers of Public Order and Security (Administrator of Public Security) and Officers of Logistics and Finance (Administrator of Public Accounting and Finance).
The Officer training program lasts eight academic semesters. The first six are conducted in boarding school mode, during which students—while holding the rank of Officer Aspirant—receive instruction in various academic areas, including Institutional, Legal, Psychosocial-Communicational, and Physical-Sports fundamentals.
Upon completing the eighth semester, students graduate with the rank of Second Lieutenant of Carabineros[11] and begin a non-residential period, which includes Professional Practice in Carabineros Operational Units and completion of a thesis to obtain an academic degree.[12]
Institutional career
The following table outlines the career path of Aspirants and Officers of Carabineros de Chile during their military career:[13][14]
| Years of study | Grade | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1st – 4th year at the School | Officer Aspirant | - |
| Years of service | Grade | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 5th – 7th year | Second Lieutenant | Junior Officer |
| 8th – 10th year | Lieutenant | Junior Officer |
| 11th – 18th year | Captain | Junior Officer |
| 19th – 24th year | Major | Senior Officer |
| 22nd – 25th year | Lieutenant Colonel | Senior Officer |
| 26th – 30th year | Colonel | Senior Officer |
| --- | General | General Officer |
| --- | Inspector General | General Officer |
| --- | General Director | General Officer |
Location
Today, the Carabineros School has a modern campus located at 1842 Antonio Varas Avenue, in the Providencia district of Santiago. It occupies a 13.57-hectare site, the same on which it was originally founded.[15]
References
- ^ a b c Alberto Polloni Roldán (1972). Las Fuerzas Armadas de Chile en la vida nacional (in Spanish). Santiago: Editorial Andrés Bello. p. 434. OCLC 4720249.
- ^ René Peri Fagerström (1982). Apuntes y transcripciones para una historia de la función policial en Chile: 1900-1927 (in Spanish). Imprenta de Carabineros. p. 123.
- ^ Boletín de legislación nacional (in Spanish). Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional. 1978. p. 3.
- ^ Labarca, Eduardo (2009). Lanza internacional (in Spanish). Editorial Catalonia. p. 281. ISBN 978-956-324-366-6.
- ^ Cárdenas Muñoz, Vania Luz (2018). "La Unificación de las Policías Fiscales chilenas.: Elementos para identificar los inicios de una carrera policial en la segunda década del siglo XX". Estudios Sociales del Estado (in Spanish). 4 (7): 94–123. doi:10.35305/ese.v4i7.149. hdl:2133/16196. ISSN 2422-7803.
- ^ "Inicios de la policía contemporánea (1830-1933) - Memoria Chilena". Memoria Chilena: Portal (in Spanish).
- ^ Cárdenas, Vania (December 2021). "La fundación y primeros años de funcionamiento de Carabineros de Chile, ajustes políticos de un discurso orientado a la eficiencia y unidad institucional (1927-1931)". Tiempo histórico (23): 39–57. doi:10.25074/th.v0i23.2175. ISSN 0719-5699.
- ^ José Miguel Olivares. "FORMACIÓN DEL CUERPO DE CARABINEROS DE CHILE". Academia de Historia Militar (in Spanish).
- ^ "Historia". Escuela Carabineros. Retrieved 23 May 2025.
- ^ Duvauchelle Rodríguez, Mario (1994). Las Fuerzas Armadas y Carabineros de Chile: su regulación constitucional y orgánica constitucional (in Spanish). Santiago: Editorial Jurídica de Chile. p. 205. ISBN 978-956-10-1076-5. OCLC 52091823.
- ^ Vieyra, Walter Luzio (1987). Realizaciones del gobierno de las Fuerzas Armadas y Carabineros, 1973-1986: desde el 11 de septiembre de 1973, hasta 1986 y los acontecimientos más importantes de los primeros meses de 1987 (in Spanish). Empresa Nacional de Publicaciones. p. 7. OCLC 17438788.
- ^ "Misión y Visión". Escuela de Carabineros. Retrieved 23 May 2025.
- ^ "ley 18.961, artículo 6". SUSESO: Normativa y jurisprudencia (in Spanish).
- ^ "Cómo identificar los distintos grados jerárquicos de Carabineros". meganoticias.cl (in Spanish). 29 March 2018.
- ^ "Escuela de Carabineros de Chile del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo - Comuna de Providencia". Comuna Providencia (in Spanish). 25 June 2024.