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National Police of Colombia

National Police of Colombia
Policía Nacional de Colombia
Coat of arms of colombian national police.svg
Emblem of the National Police of Colombia
Motto Dios y Patria
God and Fatherland
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
Jurisdictional structure
National agency Colombia
General nature
Operational structure
Agency executive Jorge Hernando Nieto Rojas, General
Parent agency Colombian Ministry of Defense
Direcciones
Regiones y Comandos Departamentales
Facilities
Airbases 5
Notables
Person Rosso Jose Serrano, head of agency, for ethics and anticorruption
Website
www.policia.gov.co/portal/page/portal/HOME/home1008
Footnotes
Colors: White and Green
March: Hymn of the National Police of Colombia  See the reference below for the source of the above data.
Notables
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.

Colombians can communicate with the Police by calling toll free: 112 (nationwide) or 123 (from Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cucuta, Pereira, Cali and Medellin). If it is regarding a kidnapping, the GAULA group can be reached at 165. They can also be contacted via the Internet to record suggestions, requests, questions, compliments or complaints using the "Sistema de Peticiones, Quejas, Reclamos y Sugerencias (PQRS)"

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.

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