The crime for which the uniformed officers must initially respond is concussion, which has a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.
He Intelligence Service of the National Police, After an investigation of several months, together with the Prosecutor’s Office They managed to dismantle a group of the Public Force itself that, lacking institutional ethics, had departed from the legal and moral postulates and had apparently provided help with their omission of functions so that violators of the Penal Code would remain outside the reach of justice.
Are seven uniformed men belonging to the Highway Policewere captured during the morning of this Monday, May 6, and they were immediately taken to a public hearing, where it has been preliminarily indicated that they must answer for the crime of concussion and where, in addition, the capture will be legalized if necessary and the judicial measure, which may be house arrest, will be applied. , in a prison or simply, they could be released fully or conditionally.
Concussion, a serious and embarrassing crime
This is illegal conduct that is contemplated in article 404 of the Penal Code and applies “to a public servant who, by abusing his position or functions, constrains or induces someone to give or promise the same servant or a third party, money or any other undue utility, or request them. The maximum penalty established by the legislator for this crime is 15 years in prison, but the person responsible also ends up affected by the suspension of other citizen rights.
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The colonel Diego Edinson Mountaincommander of the institution in La Guajira, today in a meeting with several journalists reported important changes in the Transit and Transportation specialty, where he indicated that there was a new management team in that group on the Peninsula, but he did not tell the journalists, the most important thing was that it had been given ‘a shake’ among the most important cadres of the police unit. He spoke of changes due to the decision of those who left.
They were in audience
The Police commander declined to provide information about this case, indicating that these people were on Monday afternoon, in the middle of the process of legalizing their captures, which apparently were by order of a judge of the Republic.
Some were in their places of residence and the majority were found by Gaula officials and the Prosecutor’s Office in the place where they were usually carrying out their work on the highway south of La Guajira, in the place known as The Criticism, in the jurisdiction of the municipality of Hatonuevo, a site that was known as incorruptible for many.
At the end of the day, the command of the armed institution prepared a laconic statement in which it touches on three points, indicating in the first instance that “Within the framework of the Police Integrity Policy, this unit began an investigation in coordination with the Attorney General’s Office that involved the capture of 7 uniformed officers assigned to the Transit and Transportation Section of the Guajira Police Department.
In the same sense, at the disciplinary level, a process was opened to clearly determine all the circumstances that framed the conduct of the indicated uniformed officers. “The uniformed officers must face criminal charges for omitting their duty as public officials and failing to comply with police ethics.”
