Police Integrity Policy & Int'l Agreements

• Concerns the Policy of Police Integrity
• Resolution Number, date 15th August 2023

Colombian National Police

• The administrative function serves the general interest grounded in equality, morality, efficiency, economy, celerity, impartiality, and publicity.
• Decentralization, delegation, and function deconcentration are key aspects.
• The National Police is a permanent armed body, civil in nature, responsible for maintaining conditions for public rights and freedoms, ensuring peaceful coexistence for Colombians.

International Agreements

• The "Pact of San Francisco," the United Nations Charter signed on June 26, 1945, emphasizes preserving generations from war, reaffirming human rights and equality, promoting social progress and broader freedom.
• The American Convention on Human Rights "Pact of San José de Costa Rica" of November 22, 1969, underlines that in a state of law, human rights are guaranteed through basic conditions for sustenance, including food, health, freedom of organization, and political participation.
• Resolution No. 34/169 of December 17, 1979, adopts a "Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials" which requires officials to serve their community, protect against illegal acts, and maintain a high degree of responsibility.
• The United Nations Convention against Corruption, adopted October 31, 2003, promotes measures to prevent and combat corruption, facilitates international cooperation and technical assistance, and promotes integrity, accountability, and proper management of public affairs and property.

Colombian Laws

• Law 489 of 1998 regulates administrative functions, determines the structure, and defines principles for Public Administration.
• Law 1437 of 2011 addresses conflicts of interest and grounds for impediment and recusal.
• Law 1474 of 2011 strengthens mechanisms to prevent, investigate, and sanction corruption, emphasizing institutional and pedagogical policies, including an annual anti-corruption strategy and citizen service plan.
• Law 1755 of 2015 regulates the fundamental right of petition before authorities and private organizations.
• Law 1757 of 2015 defines requirements for accountability, including mandatory reporting to citizens and compliance with the Single Manual of Accountability.
• Law 1801 of 2016 states that police activity enforces corrective measures according to constitutional and legal powers.
• Law 1952 of 2019 guarantees public function by safeguarding public morals, transparency, legality, and impartiality.
• Law 2016 of 2020 adopts the Code of Integrity of the Colombian Public Service, issued by the Administrative Department of the Public Function, complementing core values.
• Law 2094 of 2021 grants the Procurator General the power for superior oversight of official conduct.
• Law 2179 of 2021 establishes the category of police patrol officers.
• Law 2195 of 2022 defines acts of corruption to include a range of criminal conducts and mandates the creation of a citizen consultation and monitoring system.
• Law 2196 of 2022 defines police discipline and establishes citizens’ system for complaints and consultation.
• Law 2220 of 2022 concerns conciliation and creates the National Conciliation System, to facilitate access to justice.
• Decree 2623 of 2009 establishes the National Citizen Service System.
• Decree 1083 of 2015 compiles regulations for public functions.
• Decree 124 of 2016 outlines documents for anti-corruption plans, including risk management.
• Decree 003 of 2021 requires the Police to report on complaints, procedures, and disciplinary actions related to public demonstrations.
• Decree 113 of 2022 allows the Director General of the National Police to create and organize schools, units, functional areas, and work groups.
• Resolution No. 1090 of 2023 focuses the Inspector General and Professional Responsibility as the integrity process owner.
• General Inspector is the leader of the Integrity Policy.

Updated Policy

• Necessary to update Police integrity policies to provide more community trust.

Policy of Police Integrity

• Directs conduct and behavior within Colombia's National Police.
• International Human Rights instruments.
• Colombian Constitution.
• The Law, and institutional values.
• Applied to decision-making, procedures, and risk prevention impacting police integrity.

Integrity Concepts

• Honesty, transparency, sincerity, and professional
• Professional Responsibility, observe to standards of performance in the Police Force
• Ethical Police System, principles, guides,values based on ethics.
• The public value, is the quality the goverment gives to the common man.
• Probity shall mean observance of a professional, honest and loyal function.

Directives

• Shall be overseen by a general inspector.

Articulates 5

• Policy applys to all personal from the Police force and departments

Principles

• The policy will look to provide a positive change to the the perception and integrity of the National Police.

Resolution

• Encompass the management, talent, organization,
• Provides integral traing for uniform personnal
• Providing the staff with well being and living standards.
• Administratiom and medical services for safety.
• Provide judicial, criminal, and criminilogical support for the crime.
• Providing the control of drugs.
• Traffic compliance is a responsibility.
• Provide coordination for any internal corruption.
• Protect the nations youth and tourism industry.
• Legal and state processes the officers need.
• Proper conduct and morales
• Respect for human rights
• Legal aid whenever its needed

Finalized resolutions

• Management process
• Managing risk
• innovation management
• Service with quality.

Key requirements

• The integrity of personnal shall be considered at all times.
• Focus and strategic planning.

Focus

• Rights, Human, Gender.

Equality

• Equal oportunites and equality.
• Responsibility, internal regulations for being responsable
• Police dicispline, is the constitutional disclipline and ethics.
• Interial control is neccesarry.
• Anti damage practices legalities

Strategy and Anti-Corruption program

• A program that shall enforce anti corruption.
• Risk assesment managment.

Transparence

• Transparency and accountability.

Ethics focus

• Ethics policys and proper procedures shall be enacted.
• The policitcal system supports it.
• Support for the youth.
• The focus is to support what is ethical

Objectives

• Provide strong integration through innovation.
• Deploy policys.
• Reduce risk.
• Strengthen the level of ethics

Police Integrity system

• A group effort for the factors to work together.
• Enforce the actions.

Main groups

• Leadership is key
• Support the effort.
• Share information that is good.

The Anti-Corruption program

• Needs the right resource and to be supported.
• Has to be improved
• The reports needs to improve the standards and organizational

Strategy

• Strategy and differentions for Police.
• It is transverersal.

Risk

• Need for mitigations plans must be activated
• Need for cultural changes and ethical behaviors.

Components to add

• It shall have the best police at its core.
• Support the police moral and ethnical stance.
• Focus on the coruption and its affect.

Prevention of Risk

• It shall identify risks.
• Analyize the human risks.
• Focusees of the people.
• Its needs to be monitored
• All risks get better managed.

To get to the corruption

• Needs to all be focues and preventiv.
• Support operations.

National police operations

• They need to be inplemented better.
• Improve all the operations

Implementation of all regulations is key

• All resources managed better
• Ethical behavior
• Supervize everyone

Table of control

• Its paramount for things to be ethical and safe

Responsabilities

• Need to be accountable

Functions for personal

• Follow the polices
• Eval all things.
• The ethics code will now be enforced

General Instructions

• All should be clear and understood.
• It needs to be easy to read and follow.

All police forces

• Its a must that all police forces are ethical and fair.
• Everyone needs ethics.

In order to prevent all problems.

• Be better on the ethics
• Support the civilian.
• No corruptions
• Communication.

All actions need to be enacted

• There needs for safety
• The regional efforts need to be better
• Support and help all.

Regional leadership needs

• All operations need to be done with transparency.
• The police and the staff needs this level of support.
• Police ethcial rules apply at all times.

Committee responsibilities

• Safety.
• Ethics is key for the team and staff

The system needs to be solid and strong

• Transparency is needs.
• Communication and help at hand.

Actions: The team will be built with key players

• Regional Leaders for key help.
• All levels must work together to provide safety.
• Regional help.

All must know

• Ethical codes and conducts.

Key points to look at

• Ethical and transparency is paramount.
• All rules apply.
• Ethical codes must be followed.

Overview of the Colombian National Police integrity policy. It highlights the administrative function's role in serving public interest and key aspects like decentralization. Also covers international agreements such as the UN Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights.