Of course, the solution is in answering the question: Yes, the police should be better trained, better equipped, better paid and their numbers should increase.
My guess is that Berger is trying to solve a different problem (how to control thousands of ex-military personnel and keep them from roaming the streets as vigilantes or be incorporated into the drugs mafia) by making them part of the police force.
No, the army should not be brought in to fill staffing needs. That would only serve to militarize the police, something that is forbidden explicitly in the peace accords.

The problem is: the military, the politics and the mafia is the same people.
Guatemala spends more in the military than health and education.

Roberto muy buen articulo. I haven't been to Guate in years; while I agree with your point of view, I am torn, as I still have family that lives in Guate - they tell me things are not as bad, but I read Prensalibre online almost daily and it paints a bleak situation that is spiraling out of control; a complete chaos when it comes to the justice system (an oxymoron when it comes to Guate) but I feel for the people who are just regular working and law-abiding citizens who have to live in those conditions where survival of the fittest applies. It breaks my heart, truly, as a Guatemalan citizen to see my country run by savages; while I don't condone it, I can't say I wouldn't take the laws into my own hands if one of my loved ones' lives or my own was @ stake.