President Javier Milei and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich have approved a reform of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA, by its Spanish initials) statute that will allow them to sweep social media looking for potential crimes and search people’s personal effects or vehicles without a judicial warrant in certain cases, such as protests.

The reform aims to re-orient the PFA’s operation towards “being an investigative police force” akin to the United States’ FBI. From now on, its main mission is “preventing, detecting and investigating federal and complex crimes and collaborating in dismantling criminal organizations”.

The decree approving the reform was published Tuesday in the Official Gazette, and Milei and Bullrich will provide more details in a press conference in the afternoon.

Changes include the creation of a graduate........

© Buenos Aires Herald