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Sullana: Prosecutor’s Office rejects ruling that allows PNP to investigate crimes

Sullana: Prosecutor's Office rejects ruling that allows PNP to investigate crimes

The members of the Boards of Senior Prosecutors and Provincial Prosecutors of the Fiscal District of rejected the approval of the projects that modify the Criminal Procedure Code by the Congress of the Republic, which allows the National Police of Peru to investigate crimes.

In two official statements, they supported the Attorney General who rejected these projects and reaffirmed the status of the Public Prosecutor’s Office as a constitutionally autonomous body, responsible for criminal proceedings, and director of investigation and prosecution of crimes.

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“To request respect for the constitutional hierarchy of the Public Prosecutor’s Office granted by Articles 158 and 159 of the Political Constitution of the State, as well as the autonomy and independence in the investigation established by Article 5 of its Organic Law, which has been violated with the approval of the substitute text of the Law that modifies the Criminal Procedure Code to supposedly strengthen the investigation of crime, as a function of the National Police of Peru and to expedite criminal proceedings,” it states.

They also warned of the negative consequences that the application of this rule will generate in the processing of the investigation of the crime with the superposition of powers granted to the National Police to the detriment of the constitutional powers of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, constituting a counter-reform of the criminal procedural system, which has been brewing since the issuance of legislative decrees number 1592, 1604, 1605 and 1611, which weaken the functions of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

“We maintain our firm conviction to continue to look after the public interest, faithfully fulfilling the function entrusted to us of prosecuting crime, within a constitutional state of law that is being seriously affected by a norm of lower rank,” the statement said.

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