He Congress gave impunity to the National Police of Peru by approving a bill that prohibits judges and prosecutors from ordering and requesting preliminary arrest and preventive detention against officers who use their firearm in an intervention. In this regard, Congresswoman Ruth Luque considered that the decision means a “capture of justice.”
“I consider that Congress has provided a package of legal impunity. That is for me what has been generated not only in yesterday’s plenary session, but in all previous ones. What is behind it is the capture of justice. A justice that , with these laws, will be at the service of authoritarianism and impunity,” the parliamentarian warned.
In that sense, he highlighted that the norm encourages the “submission of judges and prosecutors” to make decisions of impunity. “In the history of the country we have already had concrete examples of when authoritarianism is generated in a sector and here what is being done is that the Police end up being exempt from any situation. Judges and prosecutors submit,” he indicated.
For this, he remembered that the PNP It is not an immaculate institution, but is the cause of complaints from the population. “We cannot talk about privileges for certain sectors. The Police are not exempt from committing violations and abuses. We are not facing a perfect police force, but also a corrupt one. Citizens have denounced it and there are very specific cases,” he noted.
After that, he mentioned the case of young Rosalino Flores, who was murdered with more than 30 pellets. “What is going to happen? That police officer will never receive justice because he acted within the framework of his duties. These are openly arbitrary rules that follow the line of authority,” he said.
Likewise, the parliamentarian regretted that the “package of impunity” has not generated a statement from the entities in charge of distributing justice in our country. “It seems bad to me that a series of announcements have been issued in a Council of State and the Judiciary, nor the Public Ministry nor the Ombudsman’s Office have spoken out when they are entities that should guarantee autonomous and independent justice,” he mentioned.
On this point, although the Judiciary has not issued a specific statement, the president of said body, Javier Arévalo, was in favor of the rule. “We are at war, and if we are at war, the enemies who shoot at us, who attack us, are killed, it’s that simple, gentlemen,” he said.
“Any of us or our family or our friends can walk down the street and be killed, you go out and don’t know if you are going to come back; Well, there are enemies and those enemies are criminals, and we have to fight the enemies, there is no other solution, gentlemen,” he added.
