Ajustes Institucionales de la Policía Nacional para la Protección de los Derechos Humanos: Estudio del Código Nacional de Seguridad y Convivencia Ciudadana Ley 1801 de 2016

Abstract

The objective of this study was to identify the institutional adjustments and challenges of the national police in terms of human rights protection since the entry into force of Law 1801 of 2016. In methodological terms, it was developed from an investigative approach supported by starting from the qualitative paradigm, hand in hand with the documentary research technique, which began with the heuristic phase of information collection and continued with a hermeneutical analysis from the historical contextualization of human rights and its link with phenomena that involve issues of coexistence and citizen security, in order to connect these events with the entry into force of the Law under study. It was found that the National Code of Citizen Security and Coexistence, Law 1801 of 2016, linked a normative adjustment that unified all the provisions that in terms of function and institutional activity must activate the National Police, structured as a preventive legal tool that projects a decisive purpose, whose base tends towards the peaceful relationship of the human collective. However, challenges were identified regarding the protection of human rights, aimed at establishing preventive measures linked to a framework of duties and obligations for natural and legal persons, and the assignment of clear regulations and mandatory compliance for the exercise of power and police activity, these, aimed at respecting and ensuring respect for the rights and freedoms established by the Political Constitution of the Colombian State.