Ley 1801 de 2016-Código Nacional de Policía como herramienta para asegurar la convivencia en Colombia

Abstract

Bearing in mind that a new National Code of Police and Coexistence came into force in Colombia as of January 30, 2017, which seeks, according to its authors and the national government, to be the instrument that will resolve the problems of coexistence that arise and that they are generating perception of insecurity in the citizenship. The objective of this investigation is to study Law 1801 of 2016 or National Police Code in order to determine if it is a tool that allows to ensure coexistence as they have affirmed within the constitutional paradigm of the social and constitutional State of law. For this, an analytical (legal-descriptive) method of the different concepts on police law and coexistence was used and a field investigation was made to find and study some of the pronouncements of the Colombian Constitutional Court on some of the articles of this law. The investigation begins with generalities about police law, as has been its development in Colombia from the time of the colony until the issuance of law 1801 of 2016; the constitutional principles of police law are related; The doctrinal and jurisprudential definitions of police power, function and activity establish who is the police authority and what are the police means, later the most important aspects of the National Code of Police and Coexistence are described to conclude with the analysis of the Main sentences that have been dictated by the Constitutional Court when studying the constitutionality or not of these.