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The head of the institution stated that her management will be aimed at achieving a transition towards a society based on respect and harmony, in which crime and criminality are not an option.
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“We are going to carry out a comprehensive transformation process of the institution supported by new digital technologies, to adapt the strategies, methods, techniques and decision-making to current challenges,” Dr. Camargo stressed in her designation.
Luz Adriana Camargo Garzón took office before the President Gustavo Petro, as the new Attorney General for the period 2024 – 2028.
“You can take for granted be that I will be an independent and impartial prosecutor. My main commitment is the respectful separation of powers, harmonious collaboration between them, and the application of the law under conditions of equality,” highlighted the Attorney General, Luz Adriana Camargo.
The head of the prosecutor´s Office emphasized her clear commitment to ethnic, racial and gender justice, as well as the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion, in the comprehensive work of the institution.
“I accept my election as the culmination of my career at the service of the judicial branch, but above all as a great responsibility and opportunity to positively transform the lives of millions of compatriots who are affected by the scourge of violence, crime, and impunity,” said Prosecutor Adriana Camargo.
The five pillars of the new administration
Within the framework of her appointment, the Attorney General assured that her work leading the institution will be based on five pillars:
Prioritization of investigations:
She assured that it will be based on a territorial approach.
“The key is the prioritization. The country can be understood in a homogeneous way. Crime and violence revels themselves differently depending on the territory. That is why we must have differentiated models for fighting crime according to regions, rural areas, and large cities, in which criminal phenomena are addressed (…). Prioritization will be carried out with the aid of personnel of the 35 sectional offices of the country, so that, each one can determine its goals based on the criminal phenomena that impact its inhabitants,” she stated.
Strengthening criminal analysis:
She pointed out that this will be a basic issue in the investigation to create useful contexts and diagnoses based on the information generated by the Prosecutor’s Office itself.
“Financial analysis will have a predominant place in this task to follow the routes of illicit money. In order to support the creation of contexts and the investigation of cases, we will rely on data analytics and artificial intelligence to find connections between a group of denounces in which facts, modalities of behaviors, places, times, people, assets, early warning system can coincide and allows us to anticipate specific crime phenomena,” she stated.
Strengthening victim assistance routes:
Regarding this aspect, she highlighted that current structures will be strengthened with simple mechanisms for restoring rights, which provide citizens with a prompt solution of crimes that affect them.
Application of reward figures:
She stated that the use of reward justice as a vocation of the accusatory criminal system must be recovered. “We cannot continue stigmatizing the achievement of preliminary agreements and the application of principles of opportunity as an absence of justice, but rather consider them as the materialization of a different model that aims at the effectiveness in the dismantling organized crime, but also of individual crime and judicial speed,” said the Attorney General.
She also pointed out that as part of this process the negotiation strategies will be reconsidered, after a solid investigation that favors the position of the Prosecutor’s Office, to achieve collaboration agreements for the dismantling of criminal organizations and the subjugation of the accused people.
Design of management indicators:
In this matter, she stated that progress will be made towards indicators that reflect the effectiveness of the institution.
“Our purpose is to expand the indicator of the actions that constitute (…) the activity of prosecutors, preliminary agreements, negotiations, opportunity principle, mediation, conciliation, accusations, and participation of prosecutors in trials. In any case, the exercise of measuring ourselves must be validated by verifying in the territories the dismantling of criminal organizations and criminal prosecution is having the effect that we believe. This validation in territories is essential so that we know if we are on the right path,” said the Attorney General.
Finally, the Attorney General stressed: “none of the previous lines of action will be possible without promoting within the institution the management model that respects the qualities and aptitudes of its personnel, that recognizes their merits and supports the training process. This administration will take into account the needs and expectations of a committed and professional human team but will also be implacable with personnel who engage in acts of corruption or misuse of power. Our mission will be a human mission, a mission for the dignity and well-being of our people.”
The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out criminal investigations within the Office of the Attorney General. By the time this communication is disclosed, the legal status of the people mentioned is still pending to be resolved by the competent judicial authority, always under the presumption of innocence contemplated by Article 29 of the Political Constitution and Article 7 of Law 906 of 2004.