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Reporters Without Borders today gave a cautious welcome to a police announcement yesterday that they have identified the officer who attacked photographer Victor Salas.  Head of the 'Carabineros' police in Valparaiso, Gen. Jaime Vasconcellos, said that the name and rank of the officer suspected of seriously injuring the journalist working for the Spanish news agency EFE have been given to military justice. The photographer's lawyer, Alfredo Morgado on 11 July asked for the investigation to be handed over to the municipal police. Gen Vasconcellos has made no objection to this request. Salas was left with a serious eye injury after a mounted police officer struck him with a metal riding crop while he was covering a demonstration in front of the Congress in Valparaiso on 21 May this year.