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S-1810-0053-0004 · Folder · 1990-01-01 - 1993-12-31
Part of United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL) (1991-1995)

Francisco Salazar Perez and Mario Carpio Palma
Oscar Antonio Salguero
Oscar Salinas Miranda
San Sebastian Massacre
Pastor Sanchez Sanchez
Sister Antonia Schedlo
Hector David Segovia Verillos
Manuel Arsenio Serpa
Osmin Serrano

Francisco Salazar Perez and Mario Carpio Palma
Oscar Antonio Salguero
Oscar Salinas Miranda
San Sebastian Massacre
Pastor Sanchez Sanchez
Sister Antonia Schedlo
Hector David Segovia Verillos
Manuel Arsenio Serpa
Osmin Serrano

Regional Police Offices

S-1812 contains records concerning the operation of the Police Division of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL), and of ONUSAL’s reform and development of Salvadoran police forces.

Police Division
Included are records relating to the support and training ONUSAL provided to the National Civil Police (PNC). Training materials consist of manuals, memoranda and correspondence concerning security for government officials and foreign dignitaries, public security, explosives identification and destruction, patrol, and transport. Also included are records relating to the organization of the Mission, the restructuring of the Police Division, and the Mission mandate.

Regional Police Office of Chalatenango
Records consist of daily reports concerning the results of investigations, arrests and detentions, theft, assault, homicide, and disappearances; and operation logs of the Auxiliary Transitory Police (PAT). The PAT was responsible for maintaining public order and security in the former zones of conflict until their substitution by the new National Civil Police (PNC).

Officers’ files consist of monitoring, investigation, and analyses reports sent to the Head of the Regional Police Office of Chalatenango. These reports contain information on: the verification of explosive ordinance, demonstrations, armed groups, and gunfire. Officers’ files also contain: security and evacuation plans instituted during the elections held in March 1994; and papers and memoranda regarding the voter registration process and the issuance of voter ID cards (carnets).

Reports submitted to the Head of the Police Division cover such topics as: arms trafficking; the discovery of explosives and tatús (guerilla tunnels and shelters); acts of vigilantism; crimes and human rights violations; misconduct by members of the PNC and the PAT; assistance and training provided to the PNC; and security for the elections and for the Head of Mission’s visit to the region.

Regional Police Office of San Miguel
Records consist of: reports about corrupt officers in the National Police (PN); complaints of misconduct by members of the Auxiliary Transitory Police (PAT); incident and patrol reports; reports on receptions for mayors (alcaldes) returning from exile; and summaries of telephone calls. There is also correspondence from ONUSAL police sub-offices in the following locations: San Luis de la Reina in the department of San Miguel; Osicala and Sociedad in the department of Morazan; and Anamoros and Santa Rosa de Lima in the department of La Union.

Also included are: case information sheets for human rights violations followed by the Regional Police Office of San Miguel; papers about the establishment and deployment of the National Police (PN) in the department of San Miguel; analyses of public security in municipalities of San Miguel; graphs and statistics on crime in the department of San Miguel; and plans to reduce crime drafted by the National Police.

Regional Police Office of San Miguel, Sub-Office of San Francisco Gotera
Records consist of: correspondence with the Regional Office of San Miguel; Police Observers’ reports on local incidents; accusations of human rights violations committed by members of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN); reports on the distribution of housewares and farming tools to former members of the FMLN; memoranda on underage members of the FMLN; reports on the performance and operational difficulties of the Sub-Office of San Francisco Gotera, which was located in the department of Morazan; and summaries and minutes of meeting of the sub-office staff.

Regional Police Office of San Miguel, Sub-Office of Santa Rosa de Lima
Included are operation logs and reports sent to the Regional Police Office of San Miguel about criminal investigations. The reports also concern: the corruption of judges; disputes about land ownership and land transactions; destruction of weapons; induction of new members of the National Civil Police (PNC); and troop movements of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).

Regional Police Office of San Salvador
Records consist of daily reports prepared by the head of the Regional Police Office of San Salvador about patrols carried out in numerous municipalities and towns in the department of San Salvador. The reports contain information about: interviews conducted in connection with crimes being investigated; visits to National Police headquarters; monitoring of labor protests; and visits with mayors (alcaldes).

Regional Police Office of San Salvador, Sub-Office of Suchitoto
Included are: patrol reports submitted from the Sub-Office of Suchitoto, which was located in the department of Cuscatlan, to the regional police offices of San Salvador and San Vicente about incidents in the municipalities of Cuscatlan.

Also included are: proceedings from meetings held about the transaction of properties in the Land Transfer and Reintegration Program (PTT); and reports on visits to properties to investigate land-related complaints and incidents arising from the administration of the PTT.

Regional Police Office of Santa Ana
Included are reports on human rights violations, prison visits, crimes, disappearances, labor disputes, and land disputes. Also included are verification reports about local branches of the Customs Police and the National Police.

Regional Police Office of Usulutan
Included are reports on a variety of topics, such as: criminal investigations, armed groups, corruption; and the state of public security in towns and municipalities in the department of Usulutan. Also included are records of the Auxiliary Transitory Police (PAT) stationed in Jucuaran, San Augustin and Santa Elena, which consist of: patrol and incident reports, incident scene sketches; and correspondence from justices of the peace.

Correspondence covers such topics as: crimes; human rights violations; incidents; exhumations of corpses; penal code reform; land ownership disputes; the organization of the Police Division; cooperation between the Police Division and the Human Rights Division; and assistance provided to the Salvadoran government’s vaccination campaign.