Hector Casanova González, Director Office for Territorial Support
He received a Law degree from Universidad Santo Tomás in Bucaramanga (Santander). He majored in Criminal Law at Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá, Criminal Investigation at Universidad Manuela Beltrán in Bogotá, and Judicial Management at Universidad Autónoma in Bucaramanga.
His bond with the Office of the Attorney General began in 1994 when he worked as a judicial clerk in Sabana de Torres (Santander). Between December 2001 and June 2010, he served as Municipal Judge of mixed jurisdiction, as supervisory Judge, as Sentencing Judge and as judge to execute Security Measures, streamline backlogged cases, and Circuit Criminal Judge to streamline backlogged cases in Santander.
In 2010, he joined the Attorney General’s Office again and worked for six years as a prosecutor specialized in human rights. In 2016 he joined the Judiciary as Assistant Magistrate of the Criminal Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, and in 2022 he returned to the Attorney General’s Office to take a position in the Specialized Directorate against Human Rights Violations, handling several high-profile investigations such as the so-called ‘extrajudicial executions’, collective homicides, and human trafficking.
In the academic field, he worked at Escuela Judicial Rodrigo Lara Bonilla teaching the implementation of the Accusatory Criminal System and at the Directorate of High Studies of the Attorney General’s Office teaching about Judicial Police.