Consejo Coordinador de Seguridad Pública, commonly known as La Oficina (lit.
[1] La Oficina repressed violent left-wing organisations that posed a threat to the Chilean transition to democracy.
[2] It has been accused that the organisation used methods similar to those used by the preceding military dictatorship of Pinochet including torture.
[1][2] La Oficina worked with a network of informants and promoted a culture of squealing in the targeted organisations.
[1] Informants connected to the targeted organizations were instructed to cease all forms of armed resistance, surrender their weapons, and hand up their fellow combatants.