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There is no instruction or directive for officials of the Public Prosecutor’s Office to stop receiving complaints or carry out urgent actions such as the prosecution of people detained in flagrante delicto.
This was stated by sources from the Prosecutor’s Office after announcing a disciplinary investigation against an official who refused to receive a person arrested for a case of reception (having a stolen object).
(In context: Video: Police catch a thief and the Prosecutor’s Office refuses to arrest him)
The video has been replicated on social networks, and there the official can be seen telling the police who arrived at the Immediate Reaction Unit of the Prosecutor’s Office in Medellín that if he wanted to leave the captured “leave him, here every day we have reports of theft and cell phones “.
The video recorded by the uniformed officer generated outrage at the attitude of the official and her reluctance to receive it.
The decision of the prosecuting body to investigate after noting that “actions like these that muddy the image of the institution do not show the reality of
25 thousand servants who work and provide a service to citizens “, voices of rejection from different sectors were added.
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The criminal lawyer Francisco Bernate considered that the fact is of the greatest gravity, not only because of what would be the non-prosecution of a detained person but because of the message that is sent to society.
“This cannot happen, people with stolen cell phones, released daily, and when the victim goes to court they receive a” just for a cell phone. “
It can’t be, “Bernate said.
The case is relevant if one takes into account that in the crime figures in the country, one of those that maintains a habitual upward trend is cell phone theft.
The former Secretary of Transparency Gabriel Cifuentes wrote “It shows why the system often does not work. The incentive of police and judicial positives is the only institutional indicator. Many times the negligence and irresponsibility of officials.”
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And he added “the police capture them. They take them to a prosecutor and release them. They repeat offenders. Criminals understand that nothing happens if they catch them. Citizens lose confidence in institutions. While crime increases and with it perception.”
The criminal lawyer Iván Cancino said that the official was wrong by threatening to certify copies against the uniformed men who had carried out the procedure.
The lawyer Andrés Caballero agreed on this and pointed out that the official was not wrong when making the decision not to prosecute the person.
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“What he is not hitting is his rude attitude and the threat of a copy check with the official,” Caballero said.
And he added, “what we cannot do is go around capturing all citizens who are found to have a reported cell phone, capturing them by reception. And even less in these circumstances so serious for public health.”
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