Staging and manipulation of a crime scene: valuation and evidentiary exclusion

By legal mandate, the Criminal Judge of Knowledge must support their decisions on all the evidence submitted in the process, among other principles, respect for the principle of consistency, however, this principle and others may be altered in the process by handling who makes the first respondent, individual or individuals, called to ensure the scene of the fact that the circumstances of time and place mode, in which an alleged crime takes place, are intact. The line with the above, constitutionally first responder function lies with the members of the security forces, which have the possibility of becoming, if necessary, on Judicial Police, particularly members of the National Police. For these, the goals, objectives and responsibility within their role in the state, are referred to in Articles 2, 6 and 218 of the Constitution of Colombia, and that despite this, ie, to have clear rules and adequate preparation, some members of this body of police, have been involved in behaviors that transgress the primary objective of maintaining indelible crime scene. These situations, the community has generated mistrust of justice, do not believe the police organization, unaware of the effectiveness of it and consider this act, as a new form of false positive, urban, and where relevant and highly known to the public, where possible, having the obligation to secure the scene of the crime, involved in the alteration thereof

La manipulación de la escena del delito, valoración y exclusión probatoria

By legal mandate, the Criminal Judge of Knowledge must support their decisions on allthe evidence submitted in the process, among other principles, respect for the principle ofconsistency, however, this principle and others may be altered in the process by handling whomakes the first respondent, individual or individuals, called to ensure the scene of the fact thatthe circumstances of time and place mode, in which an alleged crime takes place, are intact.The line with the above, constitutionally first responder function lies with the members ofthe security forces, which have the possibility of becoming, if necessary, on Judicial Police,particularly members of the National Police. For these, the goals, objectives and responsibilitywithin their role in the state, are referred to in Articles 2, 6 and 218 of the Constitutionof Colombia, and that despite this, ie, to have clear rules and adequate preparation, somemembers of this body of police, have been involved in behaviors that transgress the primaryobjective of maintaining indelible crime scene.These situations, the community has generated mistrust of justice, do not believe the policeorganization, unaware of the effectiveness of it and consider this act, as a new form of falsepositive, urban, and where relevant and highly known to the public, where possible, havingthe obligation to secure the scene of the crime, involved in the alteration thereof.Este artículo pretende mostrar la importancia de la escena del delito como insumo principal del acervo probatorio con el que el juez tomará la decisión sobre un caso en particular. La escena del delito debe permanecer incólume para que pueda brindar evidencias y pistas con el único objetivo de llegar a la verdad. Para ello es necesario establecer la responsabilidad de quien llega primero a la escena de los hechos, qué debe hacerse con esta, y cómo debe guardar la fotografía de la escena en cuestión, de manera que los investigadores puedan reproducir el pasado. Por tal razón, se trata deelementos esenciales para determinar realmente qué fue lo que sucedió