The new one Citizen Security Lawsigned this Tuesday by President Iván Duque, it will increase the punishments for those who carry bladed weapons, commit damage to private or public property, murder police officers or other members of the public force or human rights defenders, journalists and minors, among others.
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Its implementation aims to reduce “the impunity of those who commit crimes”, give “greater protection to citizens and members of the public force as well as greater tools for the judges who apply justice”indicated the Government.
Among the highlights of the new law is that whoever murders a member of the Public Force, a human rights defender, a minor or a journalist will receive the highest penalty contemplated by law for this type of crime: up to 58.3 years in prison, the highest sentence in the country.
A key part of the norm that comes into effect is that it provides the authorities with the legal instruments and economic resources necessary to counteract crime, especially in the country’s cities.
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“This initiative thinks about the ordinary citizen, the citizen who goes out to catch TransMilenio, the citizen who goes out to catch a public bus to go home or work, the citizen whose cell phone is stolen, the citizen who all days is the victim of a crime, providing greater tools to the judges to punish the violent ones who disturb their tranquility”, Interior Minister Daniel Palacios said.
He explained that the law “It intends to aggravate the behaviors that affect all citizens and that the criminal always goes to jail and not to the street.”
Here are the 10 key points of the new citizen security law:
1. Recidivism is paid: the penalty will be more serious for those who have been convicted of intentional crimes in the last 5 years.
two. Whoever murders a member of the Public Force, human rights defender, minor or journalist will have the highest sentence contemplated by Colombian law: 58.3 years in prison.
3. It will be a crime carrying a knife in a massive event.
Four. The penalties for those who violate the infrastructure are aggravated aimed at citizen security and the administration of justice.
5. Set the Privileged Self Defensewhich should be presumed when the victim defends herself against someone who illegally breaks into her room or vehicle.
6. Anyone who commits a crime with the use of a firearmwhite weapon or less lethal element.
7. Members of the Public Force will be able to use the mass transportation system when they are on active duty.
8. The amount of the fines for violation is reduced to the Code of Citizen Security and Coexistence.
9. Whoever steals a property of more than four million pesos will have a non-release sentence.
10. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) may be carried out for the construction and equipping of the country’s prisons.
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