Legal Guarantees Are For All Citizens
The political opposition and the media have been quick to speak of impunity, which unfortunately has been a pressure on the national government, ignoring the principles of law has been quick to condemn the court decision, de-legitimizing the rights and guarantees that the Political Constitution established for all Colombians without exception or discrimination because of their profession or trade. The deprivation of liberty as a preventive measure seeks to ensure that whoever is appointed to the commission of a crime is brought before the competent authority or perversely in not influence the course of the investigation, is a measure that the prosecution asks the judges in accordance with the gravity or nature of the crime under investigation, is granted until a period not exceeding 90 days during which the process must reach the trial judge prior indictment charged. In the case of the military linked to the murder investigation of a protected person, such detention had exceeded so exaggerated the terms set by the professional procedural rule, even more than 240 days in some cases but failed to open stages of trial, and if it has not done is because there is insufficient evidence of his responsibility. The only rights which expressly does not recognize or limits the Constitution to members of the security forces are political participation and labor association, says the art. 219 of the Charter, law enforcement is deliberative may not assemble except by order of lawful authority, or direct requests, except for matters relating to service and the morality of the respective body and under the law.