The special committee studying the Police Reform bill considers it “disrespectful” that the National Police sent a report containing suggestions to the Chamber while the bill was under consideration. César Emilio Peralte, who heads the committee, said nobody has the right to prevent them from continuing to study the bill. “We are going to ask all the spokesmen for the deputies of all the different parties to discuss the bill and keep it on the table and prevent it from being tarnished as some sectors would wish,” he said. Peralte also denies that the committee has been disbanded and taken off the bill project. Earlier this week, news reports said the committee had been dissolved and a new committee would be named to study both the bill and the report delivered by the National Police. Peralte said in the Listín Diario that the committee will use all the means within its power to get the police reform bill on the house agenda and have it debated by all the deputies next Tuesday. The police have resisted the reform bill mainly on the grounds that it proposes an end to police court trials and an end to ranks within the force.
