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In a letter sent this Monday, the delegate attorney for the Public Force, Herman Rincón, asked the Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, his intervention so that the Police respond to the questions that the Public Ministry asked him about the violent events –Among them, on police officers who had shot at protesters– during the protests of September 9 and 10, after the murder of Javier Ordóñez.
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“In a very respectful way, I request your intervention so that the Director General of the
National Police respond specifically to requests for information and referral
documentation (…) As I stated to General Oscar Atehortúa when I reiterated those requests 10 days later, everything required is essential to identify the members of the Public Force who allegedly exceeded the use of force during the protests “reads the letter that Herman Rincón, delegate attorney for the Public Force and Police, sent to Trujillo.
The attorney stated that he was forced to go to the minister because in a first response sent by the Police, the Head of the Automatic Dispatch Center of the Bogotá Police “limited himself to giving him strict treatment of ‘right to petition’, requesting precision of dates and times and anticipate the justification for a possible loss of the surveillance camera recordings. ”
He added that in a second response, dated September 17, 2020, sent by the Director General in charge of the Police, “the most specific thing regarding the information and documentation requested was a list of 11 investigations in which there is no member of the the Police identified as having used firearms during the protests (…) sent a table with the links to some videos ‘extracted from open sources’, but not the copies of the related documents “.
And in a third response, sent on the 25th of this month, they only sent again the second one they had sent.
All that is required is essential to identify the members of the Public Force who allegedly exceeded the use of force during the protests
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None of the letters sent corresponds entirely to what the Attorney General’s Office had requested since September 11.
In that request, the Public Ministry asked, among other things, the list of novelties of ammunition and / or firearms and those non-lethal used by police during the protests of September 9 and 10 in different parts of the country, as well as what uniformed reported their use; copies of the reports of the police officers who learned of events in which civilians were injured and / or killed; and the facts that the Police already have documented in which there are police officers or individuals involved in the use of firearms in the protests
He also requested support for the institutional instructions issued by the General Directorate of the Police and the different commands attached to the places where the events about the crime occurred. behavior that the members of the Police should have to attend to the protests.
(In addition: The Attorney General asks the Ministry of Defense for explanations for events in protests)
All that information that the Attorney General had requested in 7 points had to be sent within three business days, which did not happen. The attorney Rincón He concluded by saying that the Police had not yet delivered the information corresponding to 5 of those 7 points.
“The General Directorate of the National Police has not forwarded the ‘copies of the reports that the uniformed officers have already submitted explaining the circumstances in which they had to use their weapons and ammunition’; nor the ‘copies of the reports submitted by the members of the Police in which the theft of property and / or police facilities and / or injured officials has been documented (2); nor the ‘copies of the reports rendered by the Police officials who learned of facts in which they were injured and / or or civilian deaths ‘(3); neither the reports on’ individuals and / or personnel of the institution in civilian clothes could intervene in the development of the disturbances using firearms ‘(4); nor the’ copies of the images and videos, as well as copies of radio recordings and other institutional communication media, related to the events’ (5) “, reads his letter.
For this request for intervention by the Minister of Defense, to obtain a response from the Police, the Attorney General’s Office did not give a specific deadline.
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