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Police, immigration, and prison officers to hold protest today

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April 22nd, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) Police officers, immigration officers and prison guards will protest beginning this morning at 10am, starting at San Jose’s Central Park and culminating at the Legislative Assembly, where the officers will present a petition to lawmakers.

 

Officers are protesting the Medical Incentive Act, which forces the government to provide additional financial incentives to the country’s doctors whenever the base salary of civil servants is increased.

 

Officers say that the Act means that the government does not give police officers sufficient pay increases, in order to avoid the cost of additional financial incentives and salary increases to doctors.

 

The basic salary of a Fuerza Publica officer is currently 244,000 colones per month, or about $488 USD.

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  • bernie3

    Police everywhere need very thorough training and accountability for their actions (and non-action) to be able to accomplish their mission –
    along with a living wage.
    Organized crime can pay them more than the government, hence their loyalty may lie elsewhere.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ken-Morris/100001033121747 Ken Morris

    The base salary is a little misleading, since it is increased immediately for officers with high school diplomas and/or who complete in-house training. I think it’s still too low, but it would appear that CR prefers to have a lot of poorly-trained cops over fewer well-trained ones, a law-enforcement model about which I don’t have an informed opinion.

  • mark

    Friends, paying police officers anything under a livable
    wage is simply a recipe for corruption and a failed law enforcement system. It starts with the quality of recruits as
    evidenced by the fact that the pay structure is so low and the job so unattractive they have hire non-high school graduates into the police ranks.

    Having said this about police wages, even bringing the pay
    up to a living wage and recruiting higher quality candidates is not going to make much of a change in the quality of policing. The poor quality policing such as CR has an
    abundance of, is always systemic, running from the officer on the street, through the training department, right up to the chief of police. Remember, all the police who are currently in
    the department were the same poor quality recruits at one time.

    It should also be noted, that we gringos should not expect,
    regardless of the wages paid or training provided, that CR police will ever live up to our standards. The Latin culture
    is very strong when it comes to being laid back, being disinterested in details, and more. And, CR is their
    country not ours, and for this reason, it should have the police force they desire not the police that we think they need.

    I have been doing business in Costa Rica for many years and
    I must say that I have never found a police officer at any level who was not willing to offer a great deal of flexibility if I presented them with the proper amount of financial incentive. CR must start somewhere, so how about paying these police officers a wage they can be proud of and working toward a more professional cadre of officers. Absent this change, CR will keep getting the results they have always gotten from their police force.

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