Constitución en Inglés

296 constituteproject.org Colombia 2021 The current district attorneys’ offices of the higher courts, criminal circuit, higher customs courts, and the public order shall be transferred to the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation. The other district attorneys’ offices shall be integrated into the organic structure and the personnel of the Office of the Inspector General. The Inspector General shall stipulate the designation, functions, and seats of these civil servants and may designate whoever came to fill said offices, retaining their system of compensation and benefits. The Office of the Inspector General for Criminal Matters shall continue within the structure of the Office of the Inspector General. Also under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation is the national directorate and sectional directorates of criminal investigation, the technical branch of the judicial police, and the criminal investigative judges of the ordinary courts of the public and criminal customs divisions. The National Directorate of Forensic Medicine of the Ministry of Justice, with its sectional subdivisions, shall be integrated into the Office of the Attorney General as a public institution attached to same. Those jurisdictions that are integrated into the Office of the Attorney General shall be transferred to it with all their human and material resources within the limits stipulated by the law that organizes the Office of the Attorney General. Pending the issuance of a law that assigns to the judicial authorities, jurisdiction on the actions presently punishable by arrest by police authorities, the latter shall continue to take cognizance of same. TRANSITIONAL ARTICLE 28