Former National District prosecutor Guillermo Moreno said that the Police as it is today needs to be dismantled. The dean of the Universidad Iberoamericana (Unibe) law school spoke of the contradiction that the government entity that is one of the leading sources of insecurity is entrusted with the nation’s security. Moreno feels there is no middle position. He said that a major police reform should then lead to a more professional and better trained force that is aware of its role, knows the rights of the citizens as it is responsible for protecting those rights. He said that what is needed is not a hard line police, but a hard line law. He said that when the Police acts violently and ignores the law, it puts itself at the same level as the delinquents and looses legitimacy.
Moreno made his statements when interviewed by Servio Tulio Castanos Guzman, director of the Foundation for Institutionality and Justice. Moreno explained that the lack of on job training has made difficult the application of the new penal code. Moreno highlighted that a major advantage of the new code is that the responsibility to investigate a crime is now with the state prosecutors, and not the police.