The Blue Guardians, predecessors of the Blue Guardians Police Corps: It was the municipal police that each municipality hired, according to its budget. And, -because of the color of their uniform- they were called “pacos azules”.

According to reliable information -extracted from the Municipal Acts- the first Commander was Francisco Adriano Caro Rodríguez, as provisional, a position he held between the month of May and September 1894; to then assume as the owner, Rodelindo Castro Rojas.

Manuel Muñoz Piña continued in that position until 1923, followed by Samuel Reynold and then Alfredo Javier Castro, who was the last commander until 1927, the year in which the Chilean Carabineros Corps was created.

One of the oldest blue guardians of Pichilemu, was Honorio Llanca Pavez, who in a special session -precisely dated December 24, 1927- highlighted that he held the position of guardian for 34 years, in which "he has distinguished himself in fulfilling their duties and observing an irreproachable conduct". Distinction that he added to others during the exercise of his police work, being awarded with pecuniary bonuses.

Among those police officers was our maternal grandfather -Ramón González Gómez- who on a couple of occasions we managed to hear stories about the work they carried out, where they only mobilized with horses. And many times it was up to them, together with other comrades, to look for criminals, among whom he named “Negro Candela”, who avoided them for a long time, but who they finally managed to apprehend.