FINJUS calls the situation with the case files in the courts "dangerous"
Castaños Guzman asks for a correction of this situation
Federico Méndez
SD. The Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus) described as serious, worrisome and dangerous the fact that a high percentage of cases that reach the courts are lost because of the poor investigation and a problem in the chain of custody.
Servio Tulio Castaños Guzman, the executive vice-president of the foundation, says that the weakness of the cases reflects a crisis inside the justice system. "And because of this you see that in the end, the problem is not with the Code, the problem is with the actors in the system," he said after noting that this has to do with what is being suggested by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice, Mariano German Mejia, regarding the weakness of the cases that reach the courts.
He said that a high percentage of the cases that the Police send to the Justice Department fail due to poor preparation. He said that there is a problem of coordination and a weakness in the system of investigation.
"For some time, members of this power of the state have been complaining of the quality of the summonses and cases prepared by the Justice Department." He meant that because of this he had proposed some years ago the creation of inter-institutional roundtables , where all of the actors of the justice system could take part, such as the Police, the Justice Department, the public defenders, the penitentiary and institutions of the civil society, with the idea of creating an improvement in their coordination based on their attributions.
The problem is not the Penal Process Code, but rather with the actor in the system, fundamentally over the lack of coordination. He called on Congress to cite the actors of the system so that they can tell them what can be done to improve the strengthening of the presentation of the cases by the Justice Department. "If we continue like this, the citizens will continue to distrust the justice system."
Servio Tulio Castaños Guzman, the executive vice-president of the foundation, says that the weakness of the cases reflects a crisis inside the justice system. "And because of this you see that in the end, the problem is not with the Code, the problem is with the actors in the system," he said after noting that this has to do with what is being suggested by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice, Mariano German Mejia, regarding the weakness of the cases that reach the courts.
He said that a high percentage of the cases that the Police send to the Justice Department fail due to poor preparation. He said that there is a problem of coordination and a weakness in the system of investigation.
"For some time, members of this power of the state have been complaining of the quality of the summonses and cases prepared by the Justice Department." He meant that because of this he had proposed some years ago the creation of inter-institutional roundtables , where all of the actors of the justice system could take part, such as the Police, the Justice Department, the public defenders, the penitentiary and institutions of the civil society, with the idea of creating an improvement in their coordination based on their attributions.
The problem is not the Penal Process Code, but rather with the actor in the system, fundamentally over the lack of coordination. He called on Congress to cite the actors of the system so that they can tell them what can be done to improve the strengthening of the presentation of the cases by the Justice Department. "If we continue like this, the citizens will continue to distrust the justice system."
Federico Méndez
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