Police court orders third definitive dismissal of an officer for the events of 2019

lieutenant colonel Erland Myrko Guerrero Paredes became the third high-ranking police chief to be discharged due to the events of the 2019 riot. The former colonel had been sanctioned with the same penalty in June of this year in a court of first instance and this Monday, the Superior Disciplinary Court confirmed the ruling.

“Confirms the resolution of first instance No. 040/2021 of June 06, 2021issued by the Departmental Disciplinary Court of La Paz, which dictates a sanctioning resolution of definitive dismissal from the institution, without the right to reinstatement”, indicates the central part of the resolution known this Tuesday and published by the Minister of Government, Carlos Eduardo Del Castle.

The Vice Minister of Decolonization, Pelagio Condori, was in charge of the complaint against 26 soldiers for the 2019 riot. The complaint was filed on January 18, 2021 and So far, 17 police officers have been sanctioned in the first instance and three have been definitively separated from the Police.

All of the defendants questioned the way in which the internal process was carried outsince in all cases the main evidence is a CD containing the images of the accused in photographs that were taken in 2019. The CD had been perforated to place it in the jurisdictional control notebook and was validated by the police judges.

At least 40% of the 20 uniformed officers processed belong to the department of Cochabamba where the first instance hearings were held. All cases go up before the Superior Disciplinary Court, which is the highest instance of judgment.

The officers who have definitive discharge and no possibility of appeal They are: Colonels Iván Rojas and Erland Guerrero Paredes; Major Edwin Silva García now joins.

The group of officers who have low in the first instance It is made up of a general and four colonels: Yuri Calderón (General), Aníbal Rivas, Nelson Flores Claros, Miguel Ángel Mercado and Jaime Zurita (colonels).

The seniors whose cases are still in the High Court are: Daniel Capriles Sánchez, Jorge Salazar Ramírez, Jhamil Sandy Gonzáles and EWin Morales Rosas. They add up captains Marcelo Gutiérrez, Ivonne Barrenechea and José Vargas Barrón; The group of officers closes the case of the second lieutenant, Deymar Lima Quispe.

There are three petty officers who were dismissed in the first instance: Cecilia Calani, Javier Triguero Pairumani and Jaime Castelú Coca; finally there would be the sergeant Ever Cáceres Fernández, who add up to the 20 processed policemen.