In the context of the celebration of 100 years of service of National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences which took place at Salon Rojo conference room at Tequendama Hotel, it was launched the Third International Congress on Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences; the Seventeenth National Congress of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences and the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Latin American Academy of Criminalistics and Forensic Studies (AICEF).
Lecturers from Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Perú, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, and the United States will participate at this academic event which is scheduled until September 20.
Participants included Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Jorge Fernando Perdomo; Deputy Ombudsman, Edsiquio Manuel Sánchez Rivera; the Director of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Carlos Eduardo Valdés; President of the Iberoamerican Academy of Criminalistics and Forensic Studies (AICEF); Director of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences Colombian Association; president of the organizing committee of this Congress and Regional Director in Bogotá.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Jorge Fernando Perdomo underlined the leading role of the Colombian Legal Institute in a peace scenario for victims assistance and identification of missing persons. He also said “this entity has been, and always will be the National Institute of Peace”.
In commemoration of National Institute of Medicine centenary, the event ended with a Youth Symphony Orchestra presentation of and awards granting by Universidad La Gran Colombia, the Faculty of Medicine from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the National Academy of Medicine