The general He also indicated that, after the ruling, the detained adolescents should be returned to a specialized juvenile treatment system, warning about the risk that some minors represent for society.
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General Óscar Arriola, He indicated that the institution will fully respect and abide by the decision of the Constitutional Court that declared unconstitutional the rule that allowed teenagers to be tried as adults. “We live in a constitutional State of law and, as such, our actions are governed by what is established by the highest interpreter of the Constitution,” he stated.
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Nevertheless, Arriola He stated that since the PNP this norm was seen not as a punitive mechanism, but as an operational tool to expedite complex criminal investigations.
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As he explained, the police face cases in which adolescents are involved in serious crimes, often without complete information on the alleged perpetrators or the vehicles used, which ends up delaying or shelving investigations that directly affect citizen safety.
Finally, the general stressed that, after the ruling, it is appropriate that the adolescents currently held in prisons return to the specialized juvenile treatment system, as provided in the sentence. “We respect the decision, but we cannot fail to warn that there are minors—even 13, 14 or 15 years old—involved in events that represent a real risk to society. It is a problem that the State must face comprehensively,” he concluded.
