The elimination of the audience of imputation as a mechanism to reduce court congestion is a proposal that makes its way to improve the accusatory penal system.
The Deputy Attorney General of the Nation, Jorge Fernando Perdomo, said that this proposal would not generate loss of power to the Prosecutor’s Office as the head of the criminal action, because in that process is the holder of the accusing entity to decide on imputation or, in the case of make these proposed changes, make the accusation.
During the second Forum of analysis of the criminal accusatory system, in Paipa (Boyaca), the official explained that discusses with the officials and entities carrying on criminal justice in this country, especially the Criminal Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of justice, to find solutions that allow to decongest the criminal procedural system.
The Deputy Attorney said that one of the shortcomings found in the law 906, unlike the 600 law, is that there are no benefit for collaboration after conviction as an instrument in the fight against crime. Many of those convicted want to collaborate with information, which serves to dismantle organized crime gangs. “With this modification it can encourage the collaboration of those who have already been convicted”, he explained.
This event aims to improve the way to apply the figures of the pre-agreements and negotiations, because there is currently a set of generic rules that can be misinterpreted. “In this way is intended to specify the rules of how the pre-agreements should be.” Will they have to unify criteria so that criminal justice advance as it should, guaranteeing citizens their rights and giving it legitimacy”, said Perdomo.
Also, the Deputy Attorney defended the reform to the integral penal system as a need to strengthen the functioning of the current criminal justice system. Perdomo said that “a comprehensive and coherent prison policy is the solution to the problem of operation of the accusatory criminal justice system.