The commander of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police, General Carlos Fernando Triana, pointed out that the institution is investigating possible overreach by a uniformed officer, during a procedure carried out in the town of go up.
The officer claimed that the events occurred in the Toscana sector, when some uniformed officers asked some alleged minors for a search proceeding that triggered possible aggressions on both sides.
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“It is a performance that we reproach of course because it should not be that way, however, advancing the investigations, doing field work to show whether or not there was excess of that Police“, he pointed.
In turn, General Triana indicated that, “these three people, who once identified are minors, were made available to the Immediate Reaction Unit (URI), for minorswith the Police for Children and Adolescents restoring their rights of course”.
The fact was made known by publications on social networks of inhabitants of the sector, who assured that it was a new case of police abuse against citizens and even minors.
Faced with this, the general reported that “it was a case that occurred last weekend, around noon, when a police patrol requires three people who are in a place to make a search, These people also violently attack the police officers, also causing bruises on the police officers, on their faces.”
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Meanwhile, he added that said uniformed officers attended the site after several calls from the community of alleged drug use on public roads, by the young people in question and that the attacks would not have occurred only by the uniformed man. Furthermore, he emphasized thatwe are going to go deeper and analyze the whole context of what happened in that case”.
