The president also affirmed that a new crime of terrorism will be created. These announcements were made on the afternoon of this Sunday, January 23, at the Governor’s Office.
President Guillermo Lasso affirmed, this Sunday, that next Tuesday he will present to the National Assembly a bill that regulates the progressive use of force, thus supporting the police and military. “Profound measures are needed to support the actions of the public force,” said the president, along with the mayor of Guayaquil, Cynthia Viteri, and other authorities, in the Governor’s Office of Guayas.
“I always said that we will be on the side of the Police, of the public force, and with this bill we want to reinforce that spirit to support the work of our military and our police,” said Lasso, who also announced reforms to various legal bodies. to strengthen citizen security and the fight against transnational crime.
The Public and State Security Law will be reformed, he added, to improve cooperation between the police and the Armed Forces, “without waiting for states of exception, but rather in regular time.”
In addition, Lasso announced that the project will also ensure that police and military officials have legal sponsorship when they are subject to investigations or trials for the performance of their duties.
Don’t let the police thing happen, Corporal Santiago Olmedo, who has to bear the cost of his defense himself. From now on, it will be the State that assumes the cost of defending the police officers and members of the Armed Forces who are prosecuted for fulfilling their duty.
Guillermo Lasso, President of Ecuador
Police officer Olmedo was sentenced to three years and four months in prison for the crime of overreaching in the execution of an act of service, by shooting down two criminals who tried to assault a minor on June 11, 2021, in Riobamba.
In other reforms that will be proposed in the Comprehensive Penal Code (COIP), the president affirmed, it is ordered that there be more diligent investigations in cases where the suspect is a police or military officer in the performance of his duties.
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Lasso also announced that the crime of terrorism will be created in detention centers: “It is specified that it is not necessary for the judge to notify the suspect when the prosecutor requests his arrest for investigation purposes, thus reducing the risk of escape.”
Legal provisions will also be given to combat overcrowding in prisons, seeking to strengthen management in detention centers. (i)
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