"You can have a strong and effective criminal policy instruments prohibitive without excluding preventive and educational elements": Alejandro Ordóñez Maldonado, Attorney General's Office, referring to drug policy

The Attorney General's Office, Alejandro Ordóñez Maldonado, today participated in the forum "Drug Policy in the International Framework and Security", organized by the Senate, which exposed serious reflections on the controversy decriminalization of drugs in Colombia.

The Chief Public Prosecutor stated that "in our legal debate is not whether despenalizamos or not, because Colombia is decriminalized personal use," adding that "this debate does not answer the legal reality and social development."

About the project under discussion, the attorney said that "those who are considering the legalization should specify what is actually being proposed to the Colombian people," referring to the different stages or processes that revolve around drugs, such as production, trafficking and consumption of the hallucinogenic substance.

Dr. Ordonez said that in Colombia, "from the time the Constitutional Court decriminalized personal dose, consumption soared," adding to this, that, according to the Colombian Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, "in 6135 violence or criminal behavior in Bogota, 84% is framed by the consumption of drugs such as cocaine and marijuana, "thus showing the relationship between consumption and criminal behavior, many of them by adolescents.

Finally, in his speech, the Attorney General said that "you can have a strong and effective criminal policy instruments prohibitive without excluding preventive and educational elements," recalling the end that "the drug is not bad because it's prohibited, prohibited because it hurts the company as demonstrated. "

Speaking to the media

When asked Dr. Alejandro Ordonez on the draft justice reform, specifically the article that would suspend the Attorney General authority to investigate and punish members of Congress, he stated that "this was a proposal that I presented from the time I was elected as Attorney General of the Nation. "

Finally, when asked his opinion on the output of the National Police Director General Oscar Naranjo, the Attorney General's Office said that "we must analyze the causes, circumstances and consequences that can bring in the fight against drug trafficking, before passing judgment officially. "

PGN | Fecha Publicación: jueves, 19 abril 2012 03:30 PM