Colombia National Police
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National Police of Colombia Policía Nacional de Colombia |
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Emblem of the National Police of Colombia
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| Motto |
Dios y Patria God and Fatherland |
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| Agency overview | |||||
| Formed | November 5, 1891 | ||||
| Employees | 143,557 (2008) | ||||
| Annual budget | US$ 3.6 to 4 billion ($49.210 mil millones of pesos) (2008) | ||||
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency | ||||
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| National agency | Colombia | ||||
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| Agency executive | Jorge Hernando Nieto Rojas, General | ||||
| Parent agency | Colombian Ministry of Defense | ||||
| Direcciones |
8
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| Regiones y Comandos Departamentales |
List
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| Airbases | 5 | ||||
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| Colors: White and Green March: Hymn of the National Police of Colombia See the reference below for the source of the above data. |
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| Person | Rosso Jose Serrano, head of agency, for ethics and anticorruption |
The National Police of Colombia (Spanish: Policía Nacional de Colombia) is the national police force of Colombia. Although the National Police is not part of the Military Forces of Colombia (Army, Navy, and Air Force), it constitutes along with them the "Public Force" and is also controlled by the Ministry of Defense. They are the largest police force in Colombia. The force's official functions are to protect the Colombian nation, enforce the law by constitutional mandate, maintain and guarantee the necessary conditions for public freedoms and rights and to ensure peaceful cohabitation among the population.
During the second half of the 19th century Colombia went through many political changes and struggles to define itself as a nation. Tensions between the two main political parties, the Colombian Liberal Party and the Colombian Conservative Party, escalated to numerous civil wars trying to establish a political system between federalism or centralism and other major differences.
The National Police of Colombia was established by Law 90 of 1888 to be under government orders and as a dependency of the then Ministry of Government intended to function as a gendarmerie for Bogotá.
The new institution was planned to be a force of 300 gendarmes divided into three companies; commanded by a captain, two lieutenants and a second lieutenant, all commanded by two high-ranking officers.
On October 23, 1890, acting president Carlos Holguín Mallarino sanctioned into law the authorization to hire any qualified trainers from either the United States or Europe to organize and train the newly established National Police. The Colombian officials selected a French commissioner named Jean Marie Marcelin Gilibert. The institution was formally established by decree 1000 of November 5, 1891.
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