COLOMBIA

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Constitution

Constitution (1991) (with amendments until 2005) (Senate)

Political Institution

Presidency

Ministry of Defense (responsible for policing)

Ministro del Interior y de Justicia

National Assembly (Cámara de Representantes)

Senate (Senado)

Policing Legislation  

Código penal (2000)

Codigo del Procesal Penal (2004) (Eladebul)

 

Police laws:

Police laws on the police portal

Decree-law on community policing in Colombia (1994)

Deontological code of police

Plan national de police communautaire

Legal Archives  

Organization of the Police

Organogramme of the police (National Police)

Victimization Studies

Criminal Statistics

Policing Research Institutes

Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses

Departamento de Derecho Penal y Criminología, Universidad Externado de Colombia

Especialización en Derecho Penal y Criminología, Universidad Autónoma de Colombia, Santa Fe de Bogotá

Diplomado en evaluación e intervención en problemáticas juveniles, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Cali 

Diplomado de psicologia forense, Universidad Javeriana, Bogota 

Police Schools

Centro de Estudios Superiores de Policia

Escuela de Suboficiales "Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada"

Escuela de Cadetes de Policía General Santander

There are about 20 other police Centers of Instruction and Regional Schools

In addition, the community policing department of the national police has a training program for citizen called Escuelas de Seguridad (info on National Police) 

Online Policing Papers

Online papers of the cooperation programme "regional security" of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Online papers of the Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad (Dejusticia)

Urban Violence and Security Policies. Action Research in Barcelona and Bogotá, by Charlotte Boisteau and Yves Pedrazzini (2006)

Police Websites

Policía Nacional (section in English)

Non Governmental Organization 

Fondo Nacional para la Defensa de la Libertad Personal

Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad (Dejusticia)

 

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This page is maintained by Dominique Wisler

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