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Original Language Title: Ley Organica Policial. Aprobacion.

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Legislative Power/ Eastern Republic of Uruguay
Published D.O. 24 feb/015-NAº 29157

NAº 19.315 Act

POLICE ORGANIC LAW

ESTABLISHMENT

The Senate and the CA of Representatives of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, meeting in General Assembly,

DECREE:


TATULO I

CAPATULO I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

ArtAculo 1Aº. -A internal public order and security are the exclusive competence of the State. Its maintenance corresponds to the Executive Branch through the Ministry of the Interior.

ArtAculoA 2Aº. -A National Police is a civil and public security force. It is a national and professional body of carA.

Its structure and organization is of a hierarchical nature and its functioning is governed by the most strict discipline and observance of the current legal order.

TATULO II

CAPATULO I

OF THE TASKS OF THE NATIONAL POLICE

ArtAculoA 3Aº. -A National Policy has as its mission to protect the free exercise of rights and freedoms, and to guarantee order and internal security, through the performance of the tasks that are carried out in the following items.

ArtAculoA 4Aº.A (Committed as Administrative Policy).-The roles of the National Police, such as Administrative Policy, are as follows:

A) Vellar for compliance of the laws and general provisions, executing the orders that have been entrusted to it, in the A's to their respective competencies.

B) Auxiliary and protect the persons and ensure the preservation and custody of the goods in danger for any cause.

C) Maintain and reset, if applicable, order and security.

D) Prevent the commission of the crimes and the faults established in the Criminal Code and in the laws special, as well as administrative violations for which your intervention has been arranged.

E) Repress Behaviors That Constitute Offenses And Faults.

F) Ensuring the development of public meetings, protecting the rights of third parties, when lose the pacific character.

G) Ensuring security in places and public events.

H) Participate in the operations to be determined by the competent authorities, in cases of severe risk, stress or protection of the environment and natural resources.

i) Perform the monitoring, using the space only for observation tasks and support for land-based police operations, in accordance with the international and national legal system governing the subject matter and the regulation in this respect.

J) Combat terrorism, such as crimes and crimes against humanity, promoting respect for human rights.

K) Those other tasks that you attribute to the current legislation.

ArtAculoA 5Aº.A (Committed as a Justice Auxiliary).-As a Justice Auxiliary, the National Police are responsible for:

A) Investigating the offenses or

B) Submit to the jurisdiction of the competent court to the suspected criminal facts.

C) Develop the criminal investigation process within its competencies and under the direction of the Court, preserve the scene of the made, document the findings, manipulate, analyse and preserve the objects, evidence and indicia of the offence, in accordance with applicable scientific and technical procedures, making them available to the competent Court.

D) Those other tasks that you attribute to the current legislation.

ArtAculoA 6Aº.A (Requirement of intervention).-In the subject matter of state control, not expressly attributed to the Ministry of the Interior, the National Police may intervene at the request of the Executive.

ArtAculoA 7Aº.A (Request for collaboration).-For the fulfillment of its function, the National Police may require collaboration from the rest of the authorities and public officials, who should lend it of compliance.

Persons and entities carrying out surveillance, security or custody functions, referred to persons, goods or services, in accordance with current regulations, should collaborate with the National Police in the performance of their tasks.

ArtAculoA 8Aº.A (Remisionation).-Police action will be adjusted to the existing provisions on police procedure, to other legal and regulatory provisions imposing special duties, as well as to the regulations to dictate the Executive Branch.

CAPATULO II

OF THE ORGANIC STRUCTURE OF THE
NATIONAL POLICE LOCATION HIERARCHICAL IN THE ORGANIC STRUCTURE
OF THE POLITICAL CABINET

ArtAculoA 9Aº.A (Minister of the Interior).-The Executive Branch, through the holder of the Ministry of the Interior, is the superior official of the National Police, in whose quality the command of the Police services, as well as the general planning of the Ministry's management.

ArtAculoA 10.A (Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry).-He is the second in command of the Ministry of Interior. As such, it is in conjunction with the Minister of the Interior, the determination and coordination of policy and public security.

ArtAculoA 11.A (Director General of Secretariat Aa).-It is the third in command in the Ministry of the Interior and it is essential to coordinate the actions between the units of the Subsection. In turn, it is up to you to manage and manage all your human, material and financial resources.

The Director General of the Secretariat will be seconded by a Deputy Director, who will act under the command of the first.

ArtAculoA 12.A (Director of the National Police).-He is the fourth in command in the Ministry of the Interior and has as essential mission the professional command of the National Police. Their powers shall be those laid down in Article 25 of this Law.

The Director of the National Police will be seconded by a Deputy Director, who will act under the first.

TATULO III

CAPATULO I

OF INTERIOR MINISTRY-DEPENDENT UNITS

ArtAculoA 13.A (Internal Affairs Directorate).-The Internal Affairs Directorate is the integral control function of the functional management of the Ministry of Interior's dependencies.

Sera n committed from the Internal Affairs Directorate:

A) Preventing the acts corruption in the enforcement of the police function, promoting training and strengthening in the ethical values, such as honesty, integrity and efficiency in management.

B) Control that the police service is efficiently complied with and according to the current legal order, in any matter submitted to its consideration, especially in order to defend and respect human rights." />
C) Investigating facts and acts of criminal appearance committed by the dependent staff of the Ministry of the Interior, whatever its functional relationship, in order to identify those responsible and responsible for coordinating with the competent justice. For such purposes, a criminal appearance shall inform the competent Judge, who is entitled to practice the detentions arranged.

D) Inform disciplinary procedures for serious irregularities in the operation of services or in the individual actions of law enforcement officials, such as the eventual commission of offenses, whichever is the hierarchy of these.

E) Sustaining disciplinary administrative procedures of trade, by complaint of part or in an anilnima form with content.

F) Advising on the issues of your competence and on those in which the Hierarchy of the Incas require.

G) Coordinate activities with other agencies of the State for the best compliance with the specific purposes of the unit

The Directorate of Internal Affairs shall have all the powers necessary for the performance of its tasks, which shall be regulated by the Executive Branch.

The acting personnel of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the exercise of their duties will not be able to oppose the police hierarchy, the degree, the position or the function of the investigation. Nevertheless, the investiture of the instructed to the effects of the inquests will be taken into consideration.

This Directorate will be in charge of a Director, appointed with particular confidence.

ArtAculoA 14.A (General Information and Police Intelligence Directorate).-The General Information and Police Intelligence Directorate is a police unit, whose tasks are collection, processing, Analysis and dissemination of the information necessary for the prevention and eventual repression of the facts with the appearance of crime, contributing in turn to the strategic decision-making in matters of public security.

This Directorate will be in charge of a Director, who will be appointed by the Executive Branch as a particular trust.

ArtAculoA 15.A (Republican Guard).-The Republican Guard is a National Professional Special Corps with national jurisdiction that constitutes a security force directly dependent on the Minister of the Interior.

It has the mission of guaranteeing, maintaining and restoring internal order, combating crime within the entire national territory, and other activities related to its capabilities in accordance with the provisions established by the Executive Branch. Also, support and collaborate in the fulfillment of their tasks to the National Police, National Rehabilitation Institute and other public institutions that request it.

For the purposes of fulfilling the institutional and committed purposes, the Republican Guard shall use the regular weapons, necessary special weapons, as well as other material means provided for the fulfillment of their mission.

In its doctrine of use of force, the criteria of rationality, progressiveness and proportionality must be used, and the means of deterrence must be exhausted before they are adequate, according to the cases. Such a Director shall be in charge of a Director appointed by the Minister of the Interior who has, as a minimum, the degree of Chief Commissioner of the executive sub-scale in the field of activity.

ArtAculoA 16.A (National Fire Directorate).-The National Fire Directorate is a professional technical body, with competence in the field of fire and casualty risks throughout the national territory.

It is a specialized technical institution that directly depends on the Minister of the Interior.

This Directorate will be in charge of a Director, who will be appointed by the Executive Branch, as a charge of particular trust.

Without prejudice to the Law No. 15,896, of September 15, 1987, the National Fire Directorate has the following tasks:

A) Assume the direction of the operations required to deal with claims.

B) Dictate the regulations on risks fires, establishing the measures and devices for the prevention of carA permanent or circumstantial and the cases of its application, as well as the fines that correspond to the violation of its provisions.

C) Collaborate with other public bodies, within the sphere of the competition of these, to avoid, remove or delete claims from all Andole.

D) Intervening in fire extinguishing and in those incidents, whatever their nature, that is an immediate danger to lives, property and the environment.

E) Collaborate, also, at police or judicial request, in those tasks involving the use of personnel or specialized material.

F) Organize, instruct, and prepare all state or civil elements, with fire service mission, that you could create and monitor your employment.

G) Carry out the standardization, dissemination, and teaching of technical rules and procedures to prevent and prevent claims.

H) Meet all those committed by the current legislation.

I) Ponse a provision of the National Emergency System, when called.

ArtAculoA 17.A (National Directorate of Police Education).-The National Directorate of Police Education is an implementing unit, of national jurisdiction, whose function is the permanent training of the National Police, at the physical, technical and academic, grade and post-graduate levels, in accordance with the tasks mentioned in Article 58 of this Law.

This Directorate will be in charge of a Director, who will be appointed by the Executive Branch, as a charge of particular trust.

ArtAculoA 18.A (National Directorate of Social Affairs).-The National Directorate of Social Affairs is an implementing unit, of national jurisdiction, whose tasks are the organization and management of health and police social assistance and security.

Be the position of National Director of Police Health with particular confidence.

In turn, a National Police Health Subdirector who will have the task of preventing, protecting and recovering all health care personnel at all levels of activity and retirement, pensioners, family, health controller, and certification of sick leave, as determined by the regulation.

On the other hand, you will have a National Assistant Director for Police Social Assistance and Security, who will have the task of managing, processing, proposing and serving the retirement, pension, subsidy, and social security benefits.

CAPATULO II

MINISTRY SECURITY
CONNECTION BODIES AND CABINET

ArtAculoA 19.A (Connection agencies).-The Minister of the Interior may, by way of resolution, create agencies of connection between the various police services, determining their tasks and attributions.

ArtAculoA 20.A (Ministry of Security Cabinet).-The Security Cabinet of the Ministry will have as its main mission the coordination and the articulation of the actions related to the conservation of the order and the public security.

ArtAculoA 21.A (Integration).-The Security Cabinet of the Ministry will be chaired by the Minister of the Interior and will be integrated, in turn, by the Deputy Secretary, the Director General of the Secretariat, the Director of the Polica Nacional, the Director of the Republican Guard, the Chief of the Montevideo Police, the Chief of the Police, the Director General of Information and Police Intelligence, the Director General of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Director General of Police, the Director-General for Combating Organised Crime and INTERPOL.

The Minister of the Interior, when he considers it relevant, may call other leaders of the other units of the Ministry.

CAPATULO III

OF THE NATIONAL POLICE DIRECTORATE ' N

ArtAculoA 22.A (Director of the National Police).-The position of Director of the National Police Office will be of particular confidence and its holder will be appointed by the Executive Branch.

ArtAculoA 23.A (Tasks of the National Police Directorate).-The tasks of the National Police Directorate are as follows:

A) Running the polAtics of the order and security established by the Minister of the Interior.

B) Plan the activities from the National Police.

C) Direct, coordinate, monitor, and control police units that are under their dependency.

D) Advise the Minister of the Interior on matters relating to order, security, and National Policy.

E) Coordinate with the General Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior, the administration of the resources necessary for your management

ArtAculoA 24.A (Units dependent on the National Police Directorate).-From the National Police Directorate, the following police units will be dependent:

A) PolicyAa Jefatures Departmental.

B) Planning and Police Strategy Direction.

C) General Direction of Fight Against Organized Crime and INTERPOL.

D) General Direction of the Drug Illicit Traffic.

E) National Policy Address CientAfic.

F) National Policy Address of TrA ¡ nsito.

G) National Civil Identification Direction.

H) National Mission of Misaction.

I) General Business Fiscalation Directorate, whose object is private security

CAPATULO IV

OF THE TASKS OF THE
DEPENDENCIES THE NATIONAL POLICE DIRECTORATE " N

ArtAculoA 25.A (Department of Departmental Heads).-In each department of the country, a Head of Policy appointed by the Executive Branch. To be Head of PolicAa, as set out in the , the same conditions are required as to be a Senator.

Each Head of Policaa constitutes an implementing unit with departmental jurisdiction, which has the tasks of the Administrative and Administrative Police mentioned in the articles 4 and 5 of this Law, which will be executed according to the orders that emanate from the Directorate of the National Police and that have not been exclusively assigned to other police units, to which they should lend their collaboration.

Each departmental policy chief must necessarily be integrated with the following dependencies:

A) The Command of the Head Departmental PolicAa, consisting of the Chief of PolicAa, the Deputy Chief of PolicAa and the Director of Executive Coordination.

B) Territorial Divisions, the quantity of which They will vary by department, according to their characteristic, geographical, territorial and criminal. In turn, each of them should have a unit of research, a unit specialized in domestic violence, as well as others that need to be created by regulation.

C) The Departmental Commissons, which will depend on the Territorial Divisions and must necessarily have a dedicated body to Community policy, a unit specialized in the order and control of faults and other behaviors that affect coexistence, as well as others that need to be created by regulatory vA;

ArtAculoA 26.A (Planning and Policy Strategy).-The Planning and Police Strategy Directorate has for tasks planning, advising, coordinating, and monitoring the tasks entrusted by the Director of the National Police, and the collaboration with the rest of the police agencies, in relation to the professional topics that are presented to him.

Likewise, it will have competence in the management, implementation and monitoring of the policies designed by the Director of the National Police, such as community policy, quality management, domestic violence and rural security.

This unit will be in charge of a Director who owns, as a minimum, Chief Commissioner of the executive sub-scale, in activity situation.

ArtAculoA 27.A (General Direction of Fight Against Organized Crime and INTERPOL).-The General Directorate of the Fight Against Organized Crime and INTERPOL is a police unit, dependent on unit 001 of the IncisoA 04. It has for main tasks the prevention, control and repression of organized crime, the assistance to the criminal authorities of the paAces members of the International Organization of Criminal Police (INTERPOL) and to receive from You, in any case, have complied with the decisions of the General Assembly of that Organization.

This unit will be in charge of a Director who owns, as a minimum, Chief Commissioner of the executive sub-scale, in activity situation.

ArtAculoA 28.A (General Direction of the Drug Illicit Traffic).-The General Directorate of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is a police unit, dependent on unit 001 of the IncisoA 04. It has as its main tasks the prevention, control and repression of the illicit drug trafficking and those actions that contravene the rules on production, distribution and use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

This Directorate will be in charge of a Director who owns, as a minimum, Chief Commissioner of the executive sub-scale in activity situation.

ArtAculoA 29.A (National Directorate of the CientAfic Policy).-The National Directorate of Polica CientAfica is an implementing unit, of national jurisdiction, whose tasks are to collect and analyze objects, documents and other elements which constitute evidence or evidence material of alleged criminal facts, document the scene of the event, perform any duties and any other activity of its specialty, for the purposes of its assessment by the authorities competent judicial authorities.

This Directorate will be in charge of a Director who owns, as a minimum, Chief Commissioner of the executive sub-scale in activity situation.

ArtAculoA 30.A (National Policy Directorate of TrA ¡ nsito).-The National Directorate of Police of the transit is a executing unit that has as its main task the prevention and repression of the crimes and the faults that are committed in the transit, national and departmental. In turn, it has the task of organizing, controlling and enforcing the fulfillment and systematization of the transit throughout the country according to the applicable national and departmental regulations; enforcing the National Rules of Procedure, departmental regulations and other provisions in the field, in all routes, roads, streets and public circulation of the paAs; prevent and repress acts that may affect the state of the road network; provide assistance to the victims (i) to ensure the free movement of vehicles by adopting the provisions which are necessary; to collect statistical data relating to the transit, circulation of vehicles, accidents or any other act of interest, relating to the same subject, without prejudice to the specific tasks assigned to it they are assigned in their police body card.

This Directorate will be in charge of a Director who owns, as a minimum, Chief Commissioner of the executive sub-scale in activity situation.

ArtAculoA 31.A (National Civil Identification Directorate).-The National Directorate of Civil Identification is an implementing unit, with national jurisdiction, whose tasks are to register, maintain and update the identification data of the persons, issue the identity card, passport and other recorded information.

This Directorate will be in charge of a Director, who will be appointed by the Executive Branch, as a charge of particular trust.

ArtAculoA 32.A (National Directorate of Mission).-The National Directorate of Mission is an implementing unit, with national jurisdiction, whose tasks are the registration and control of persons who In this latter case, the national territory, the advisory regarding the immigration issue, and the temporary and final residences granted to the foreigners, in this last case, by the owner of the Ministry of the Interior.

This Directorate will be in charge of a Director, who will be appointed by the Executive Branch, as a charge of particular trust.

ArtAculoA 33.A (General Business Tax Directorate, the object of which is private security).-The registry, comptroller, audit and supervision of the services provided by the private, physical or legal persons, duly authorized for the performance of private security activities, such as surveillance, protection, custody, handling, transfer and security of persons, property and securities, as also provided financial institutions, decentralised and related payments.

It is up to you, among other tasks, to manage the enablement of private security operators and their dependent personnel; to process, inspect and enable security systems in general and all material means; (a) to ensure that the regulations are necessary, to approve safety products; to practice safety inspections which it considers relevant, or to be required to carry out the necessary safety inspections; of penalties in cases where the respective rules are infringed.

This Directorate will be in charge of a Director who owns, as a minimum, Chief Commissioner of the executive sub-scale in activity situation.

TATULO IV

THE STATUTE OF POLICE PERSONNEL

CAPATULO I

OF THE STATUTE AND THE POLICE STATE

ArtAculoA 34.A (Definition).-The Police Statute is the set of rules that regulate the rights, duties, and guarantees that the , laws, decrees and other provisions in force, establish for police personnel.

The Police State is the legal status created by the set of rules mentioned in the above.

ArtAculoA 35.A (Rights inherent in the Police State).-Without prejudice to others that are established in the laws or regulations, are rights of the police personnel in activity:

A) Respect for your honor, dignity and the due considerations that your authority grants to you.

B) Administrative Race according to budget forecasts.

C) The use of the title, uniforms, flags, badges, attributions, and weapons of the degree and charge that correspond.

D) The appropriate target to grade.

E) Formation, training, specialization and permanent improvement that ensure their development and professional promotion.

F) Medical assistance and permanent occupational health monitoring.

G) The exercise of the disciplinary powers provided for in this law and in the

H) The contribution of knowledge and experience that owns, in order to contribute to the best performance of the function.

I) The perception of the salary, aguinaldo, add-ons, social benefits and special consideration corresponding to the agreement with the performance function.

J) The assistance provided by the respective health service police.

K) The statutory annual license and other appropriate breaks.

L) The honorary assistance of the DefensorAa in the National Police Office, when it is due to appear in judicial headquarters in the area of police function.

M) The right to unionization is expressly prohibited for both the strike and the concentration and the manifestation with weapons or uniforms, or the occupation of workplaces, how to prevent the free access to them and the obstacles to the normal development of activities.

N) Do not comply with any violations of the , laws or regulations.

A ') The withdrawal and the penalty for your right-holders in accordance with the law.

O) Other rights to be established by law, decrees or regulations

ArtAculoA 36.A (Duties inherent in the Police State).-They are duties inherent in the Police State:

) Exercise the function with respect to the and the current legal order.

B) Play the function with dedication.

C) Act with probity and integrity, refrain from any act of corruption, and resolutely oppose it.

D) Observe a proper and helpful treatment with members of the community, who will be able to assist and protect when circumstances advise or be required for this.

E) Identify and provide the most information about your actuation, motive, and purpose of the same.

F) Act without delay in the performance of the function, depleting available resources for best compliance with aquilla.

G) Defender the rights inherent to the human person, even at the risk of their own life.

H) Maintaining public order and security, preventing, deterring, and repressing crime and violence in all of its forms.

I) Obey the order of the top, which must be legitimate and emanate from authority competent. On an equal basis, the police personnel of the least-age-old-age will respect what is ordered by the old mA but, in no case, due obedience may be subject to the execution of acts that constitute a crime or are contrary to the law of the law of the country. the J) Despeate the functions inherent in each grade, position, and target, as well as meet the service commissions.

K) Sujetting to the disciplinary content in this statute and the regulatory provisions that are dictated.

L) Act with impartiality, respect and protect human rights and dignity, without any kind of distinction.

M) Velar for life, physical integrity, honor and dignity of persons detained or in their custody.

N) Not disclosing the information that I will be aware of reason or time of service, obligation that will remain in place of removal of the police officer.

O) Refrain from any political activity, public or private, except for voting, agreement with the provisions of the fourth quarter of

Without prejudice to the duties set forth above, the police personnel shall be responsible for criminal, civil and administrative responsibility for the acts that they execute or omit, and for the purposes they provide.

ArtAculoA 37.A (Bans).-Police personnel will have the following bans:

A) Performing manifestations who are against the respect of the Powers of the State, their authorities or the criticism of the organization and structure of the institution, management and policy adopted by authorities.

B) Consuming substances ilAappointments, according to Decree-Law No. 14.294, of October 31, 1974.

C) (a) double conditions for police and legal professionals (doctor, lawyer, procurator) may not be involved in the provision of advice, defence or any other service to the police, of persons or legal persons, were directly involved in the police procedures where they would have participated.

D) Those who have the quality of experts in any area, will not be able to perform reports, reports, intervening in judicial or extrajudicial proceedings, in favour of private or public persons (fAsks or legal persons).

E) Do not perform activities, tasks, or jobs individuals who for their characteristics may affect the image or decorum of the institution.

F) Perform security surveillance, custody or advisory tasks outside the Ministry of Interior's A-Mbito.

G) Other prohibitions set in the rules Current Jurassic

ArtAculoA 38.A (The Police Status of staff in retirement situation).-The retirement situation policyA will have the following rights, obligations, and prohibitions:

1) Rights:

A) The collection of retirement and retirement penalty for their right-holders in accordance with the law.

B) The use of the title.

C) The assistance provided by the National Health Directorate Police.

D) The bearing of the weapon and the use of the social or gala uniform, distinctive, badges corresponding to each grade, for purposes protocolars, which should conform to the laws and regulations in force, with the exception of the staff of the Basic Scale.

2) Obligations and Bans:

A) Not disclosing information about facts or documents which by their very nature should remain reserved, confidential or secret.

B) The subject to the rule police discipline during the first four years of your retirement.

C) Perform manifestations that threaten the respect of the State Powers, their authorities and/or formulate criticism on the organization and structure of the institution, management and policy adopted by authorities, during the first four years of their retirement.

ArtAculoA 39.A (Police State loss).-The Police State is lost for the following circumstances:

A) By cesantAa or removal from the competent authority.

B) Voluntary disconnection on request of the stakeholder accepted by the Administration, which does not involve withdrawal.

C) For conviction imposed by a firm judgment of the Courts of Justice that brings with it incompatible penalty with the exercise of functions or absolute or special disablement for posts or public services.

ArtAculoA 40.A (Suspense of the Police State).-The Police State is suspended when the polycaa incurs acts expressly determined by the current regulations, such as:

A) Precautionary Measure by the competent authority in a disciplinary procedure.

B) Disciplinary sanction.

C) Processing with prison.

D) Suspense or legal citizenship.

ArtAculoA 41.A (Permanency and indivisibility of the police function).-The authority and the rank of the rank that the policyA has invited are permanent, not limited to the time of service nor the participation to the which is committed, is obliged to perform its functions on its own initiative or in superior order, at any time and in any part of the territory of the Republic, if necessary and without prejudice to the respect of the provisions on AA referred to in this law.

The departmental or sectional lAmites will not stop their action in case of prosecution of the criminals, escaped or suspected.

CAPATULO II

FROM THE NATIONAL POLICE ENTRY

ArtAculoA 42.A (Activity situation).-In activity situation is the police personnel who perform or can perform the functions inherent to their degree. This situation comprises the effective service and the availability system.

The police personnel are considered in effective service to perform functions inherent in their professional specialty in a police unit, to which they have been affected.

It is considered in terms of availability to the exceptional situation in which the police personnel of the category of officer are found, that they have no destination because they are not imputable, in which case they will keep the rest of the rights and obligations established by this law.

No official will be able to be more than two years in the availability. If this deadline is met, your retirement will be available in a prescriptive manner.

In the case of not setting up jubilant causal, you will keep the availability situation until you configure it, at which point the mandatory retirement will apply.

ArtAculoA 43.A (Income Modes).-The entry to the National Police will occur in any of the following ways:

A) As the Institute Cadet University Police, having the quality of the student during the training process, from which he will graduate prior approval of the respective course, with the degree of Assistant Officer of the executive sub-scale, according to the professional specialization appropriate.

B) As a pupil of the Training and Training Institute of the BA Scale or the Departmental Police Schools, having such quality during the training process, from which you will graduate upon approval of the corresponding course, with the degree of Agent, Fireman or Guard of the executive sub-scale.

C) In a charge Administrative or specialized sub-scale income of the sub-scale administrative or specialized, by contest.

D) In a vacant entry of the professional-professional subscale through contest

ArtAculoA 44.A (Entry requirements).-The requirements for entering the National Police are:

A) Being a natural citizen or legal with more than three years of exercise.

B) For the executive sub-scale, have 18 and 35 years of age, with the exception of the cadet, whose conditions of entry shall be subject to regulation.

C) For the rest of the subescalations you must have 18 and 45 years of age.

D) Being enrolled in the National CAVic Registry.

E) Haber approved the courses, tests, exAs or contests set out in this law and those required in the regulation.

F) Poseer the psycho-Asian conditions required for the performance of the function.

G) Credit good behavior.

H) Having approved, in any of your options, the requirements that are set through the respective regulations

ArtAculoA 45.A (Cadet intake).-The Executive Branch will manage the provision of vacancies that are necessary for the annual cadet income.

When the number of applicants exceeds the number of vacancies, the proof of admission will have to be a contest of opposition.

ArtAculoA 46.A (BAPhysical Scale Staff).-Police personnel on the BApersica Scale, belonging to the executive sub-scale, may enter the cadet course, in accordance with the provisions of the above, without modifying your budget situation.

The aspirant, at the time of his registration, will not be able to have more than 35 years of age, should have a higher-than-good-concept note, meet the conditions laid down in this law, and determine the regulations. corresponding.

Facultate the Executive Branch to enable special income of the police personnel, belonging to the executive sub-scale, to the aforementioned cadet course, regulating the requirements of income and the maximum age.

CAPATULO III

OF SUBESCALATIONS AND SCALES

ArtAculoA 47.A (Subscalaphones).-The police "L" escalation will be composed of the following subescalations:

A) Executive, whose They are the ones who fulfill the tasks of public order, prevention and repression of crimes and other police functions. They have all the obligations, prohibitions and rights of the Police State.

B) Administrative, whose members are the ones who fulfill the general administration tasks of the police institute.

C) TA©cnico-professional, whose members must possess professional title


D) Specialized, whose members should be credit special knowledge or skills, according to the Andole of their tasks

ArtAculoA 48.A (Escalas).-Police personnel in the executive, administrative, specialized, and professional-professional sub-scales will be distributed on two scales: the Officer Scale and the Basic Scale.

ArtAculoA 49.A (Officers Scale).-The Officers Scale will be divided into the following grades:

The senior staff of the Policaa, belonging to the executive, administrative, technical-professional and specialist sub-escalations and the executive staff of firefighters, will be divided into:

Top Officers:

A) Grade 10-Commissioner General

B) Grade 9-Chief Commissioner

Chiefs Officers:

C) Grade 8 â€" Commissioner

D) Grade 7-Subcommissioner

Deputy Officers:

E) Grade 6-Official Principal

F) Grade 5-Assistant

Police Students:

G) Cadet

The upper staff of the Republican Guard, belonging to the executive sub-scale, will be divided into:

Top Officers:

A) Grade 10-Commander General

B) Grade 9-Major Commander

Chiefs Officers Categorical

C) Grade 8 CapitA n

D) Grade 7 Lieutenant 1ro.

Subordinate Officers CATEGORY.

E) Grade 6 â€" Lieutenant

F) Grade 5 a€" rez

ArtAculoA 50.A (Basic BA-Scale).-The staff member of the BA Scale of the PolicAa, belonging to the executive sub-scale, will be divided into:

Subofficers:

A) Grade 4-Official

Classes:

B) Grade 3 a€" Sergeant

C) Grade 2-

ados:

D) Grade 1-Agent

The staff member of the BA-Sica Scale of the Policaa, belonging to the executive sub-scale and corresponding to the Republican Guard, will be divided into:

Subofficers:

A) Grade 4 -Official

Classes:

B) Grade 3 a€" Sergeant

C) Grade 2-

ados:

D) Grade 1-Guard Republican.

The staff member of the BA-Sica Scale of the Policaa, belonging to the executive sub-scale and corresponding to the National Fire Directorate, will be divided into:

Subofficers:

A) Grade 4-Subofficial

Classes:

B) Grade 3 a€" Sergeant

C) Grade 2-

ados:

) Grade 1-Fireman

CAPATULO IV

OF THE POLICE HIERARCHY

ArtAculoA 51.A (hierarchical scale).-The scale of the number is the set of the ordered and qualified degrees, which determines the number of rank among its members.

ArtAculo 52. -A hierarchy is the order that determines the relationships of superiority and dependency. It is set to degrees.

Degree, is the name of each of the levels of the hierarchy. Destination, is the location of the police personnel in dependencies, agencies or partitions of the National Police.

Since, it is the function performed by the polica at the assigned destination, according to their degree.

Start, it is all function that does not involve cash or cash destination.

Subalternate, it's all polyA that with respect to another, it has a lower grade on the scale.

Subordinate, is all policAa that directly depends on a superior for service or organizational reasons

ArtAculoA 53. -A superiority and dependency relationships are set as follows:

A) Ordinary or de Grade: SerA determined by the competent authority, according to what is established in the hierarchical hierarchy of this law.

B) Accidental or Target JerarchA; It is constituted for the superiority which, in certain cases, corresponds to a member of the police personnel on their peers in ordinary grade. The same is exercised by reason of the place in which it is located and the functions it performs.

C) JerarchAa extraordinaire o de servicio: It is conferred on the member of the police personnel who exercises the direction of the performance concerning the performance or the service that motivates the person, not having it to the effect, of authority over its equal to ordinary or accidental degree

ArtAculoA 54.A (Cadet situation).-The cadet, without prejudice to the quality of the student, is invested with authority in the community.

For the purposes of the procedures in which you are required to intervene, you will have the degree of Cape, Sergeant or Subofficial, according to the first, second or third years respectively. To degree equivalence, it will take precedence over the staff of the Basic Scale, corresponding to the treatment of the staff of the Officers ' Scale.

The precedence for the discharge of the cadet course will be defined according to the qualification obtained by the student and will be valid within the respective promotion until the next ascent.

ArtAculoA 55.A (Precedence).-Precedence within the grade is determined as follows:

A) By the date of promotion to the degree considered, if it were equal, by the precedence of promotion in the previous grade.

B) A equality of precedence in the previous grade, for that corresponding to the lower immediate grade, and successively up to the date of entry to the National Police, equal to the one, the oldest.

C) To degree equality, the Executive Subscale will have preeminence about the demA s.

ArtAculoA 56.A (Higher by Antique Age and Charge).-The superiority by age-old is the one that has a member of the police personnel with respect to another, in reason of its precedence in the grade or degrees equivalents.

The superiority of charge emanates from the functions that each one performs within the same organism, from which the dependency of one member of the police personnel arises with respect to another of the same degree and by virtue of which, it must obedience to aquell.

ArtAculoA 57.A (Provision of charges in police units).-The provision of charges in police units, except as referred to in Title II of this Law, shall be made by Target VAa, with the police personnel of the Officers Scale, of appropriate grade to the hierarchy of the position and belonging to the sub-scale corresponding to the functions of the service.

CAPATULO V

OF THE POLICE EDUCATION SYSTEM

ArtAculoA 58.A (Committed from the National Directorate of Police Education).-The National Directorate of Police Education is responsible for the police education system, with its tasks being:

A) Design, implement, evaluate, accredit and certify the processes of training and improvement of the National Police, in the technical and academic aspects, degree and post-graduate.

B) Ensure the excellence of these processes.

C) Track the graduates, ensuring consistency and unity of education delivered.

D) Implement the educational plans of such implementing unit with the collaboration, in the relevant, of other Recognized private or private institutions, national or foreign, through conventions or other means of use.

E) DiseA ± ar, implement and evaluate plans and projects of investigation and extension, which may be developed with the collaboration of other institutions.

F) Promote the permanent formation of members of the National Police.

G) Promote and ensure the training and improvement of teaching staff and instructors of police education institutes.

H) Promote training and training of the General citizenship in the topic of public security

ArtAculoA 59.A (Institutes).-The National Directorate of Police Education will be integrated by the following National Police Education institutes:

A) University Institute Police.

B) Institute of University Poses and Higher Studies.

C) Training and Training Institutes for BAPhysical Scale Staff.

D) Training and Training Controller Institute in Private Security.

E) Other than timely your creation is required.

ArtAculoA 60.A (Committed from the Institutes of the Police Education System).-The Institutes of the Police Education System will have the following tasks detailed:

A) The Institute Police College will form officers for the National Police, as well as specialties at the level of technicatures and award grade titles on public security issues. Develop outreach and research activities.

B) The Graduate Institute University and Higher Studies will ensure, through the training courses, the development of the administrative career of the National Police Officers and training in postgraduate specialties, graduates, masters and others that may eventually develop. Promote the realization of research projects and participation in outreach activities in the topic of public security.

C) The Institutes of Training and Training for the Personal of the Physical Scale, will form at their basic level the police personnel and in specialties in security issues public. Ensure the development of the administrative career of all members of the National Police.

D) The Institute of the Comptroller of Training and Training in Private Security will have the power to conclude agreements with national or international public and private institutions with the object to provide security training.

A will be uniquely compacted by the comptroller of all educational processes referring to the private security topic throughout the national territory

ArtAculoA 61.A (Enabling, training, and training in private security).-The National Directorate of Police Education will grant the enablement and provide training, training and counselling The institutions of training in private security, in addition, will supervise and inspect them, being guarantor to the society, of the quality and relevance of the contents and educational methods of the implemented curriculum.

CAPATULO VI

OF THE QUALIFICATIONS

ArtAculoA 62.A (Qualification).-The qualification is the administrative act that aims to evaluate the conduct, performance, or skills of the police personnel in the period considered.

This evaluation is annual and refers to the period from January 1 to December 31.

Qualifications should be governed by the principles of equal opportunities, efficiency, effectiveness, quality, competence, excellence and uniformity of evaluation.

ArtAculoA 63.A (A " competent organs).-The qualification of the police personnel will be in charge of the Qualifying Boards, which will be constituted in the form established in the regulation that the with respect to the Executive Branch.

ArtAculoA 64.A (Bases).-For the elaboration of the qualifications the written documents, concept notes, reports, inspection parts, written constances and other elements of the the judgment of the respective Qualifier Board, which must be added to the report of the qualification, in the form that the regulation establishes.

CAPATULO VII

OF THE ASCENSOS

ArtAculo 65.A (Opportunity).-The promotions will be granted when there are vacancies, which can be generated by any of the following causes:

) Death.

B) CesantAa.

C) Retiro.

D) Ascenso.

E) Budgetary modification of charges.

In special cases, the Executive Branch may grant post mortem promotions.

The promotions of the police personnel will be conferred by the head of the Ministry of the Interior, for the higher staff, and by the top leaders of the implementing units for the staff of the BAísica Scale, once the requirements set out in this law and in its regulation.

ArtAculoA 66.A (Procedure).-The promotions will be granted from the lower grade to the immediate higher. The Executive Branch shall regulate the present provision, respecting the parameters below.

With respect to the executive sub-scale and with relation to the staff belonging to the BA Scale and the Deputy Officers, the promotions will be awarded by contest.

On the Heads and Senior Officers Scale of the executive sub-scale, promotions will be available as follows:

A) Two-thirds of the vacancies, by contest.

B) The remaining third by direct selection of the Executive Branch, between the applicants who meet all the requirements for promotion.

With regard to the technical-professional and administrative sub-scales, the promotions of all staff will be conferred by contest, as regulated by the respective regulations.

The promotion to the degree of Commissioner-General and Commander-General will take place as follows:

A) 50% (fifty percent percent) by contest.

B) 50% (fifty percent) remaining by direct selection of the Executive branch, among the applicants who meet all the requirements required for the promotion

ArtAculoA 67.A (Ascenso por mólíritos).-If there were budget vacancies, the Minister of the Interior, by way of resolution founded, could grant promotions by means of the staff of the Bésica Scale. It shall not be possible to increase the amount of the same official to the same official if he has not occupied the budget vacancy to which the first promotion granted for that reason entitles him.

ArtAculoA 68.A (Ascenso del Subofficial a la Escala de Officers).-The Sub-Officers who have an aA ± o of Antique age in the grade, may attend to be integrated to the Scale of Officers, from the grade of Official Assistant or Alférez.

One third of the vacancies of the Assistant Officer of the Executive Sub-scale and Alfarrez will be exclusively for the promotion envisaged in this article.

ArtAculoA 69.A (Time to stay in the grade).-For the staff of all the Sub-Scalafons of the police escalation, it will govern the minimum required times, which will be counted in the Once they have been completed, they will be in a position to attend for the ascent:

A) Officer Scale:

Officers higher:

A) Grade 9-Commissioner Major or Major Commander 4 years

Officers bosses:

A) Grade 8-Commissioner or Capitalize 3 Aa ± os

B) Grade 7-Subcommissioner or Lieutenant 1ro 3 aA ± os

Officers subs:

A) Grade 6-Official Principal or Lieutenant 3 aA ± os

B) Grade 5- Official Assistant or Alfarrez 3

B) Basic Scale:

Classes:

B) Grade 3-Sergeant 2 aA ± os

C) Grade 2-Cape 2 years

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D) Grade 1-Agent or Guard Republican or Fireman 2

ArtAculoA 70.A (Date on which promotions will be performed).-The promotions of all police personnel will be available with the date of February 1Aº of each year.

ArtAculoA 71.A (Reglamentation).-Within one hundred and twenty days after the entry into force of this law, the Executive Branch shall regulate the grade passage system.

CAPATULO VIII

EGRESS OF THE POLICE RACE

ArtAculoA 72.A (egress causes).-The egress of the police career will occur by death, caesantaa or retirement.

ArtAculoA 73.A (Causas of cesantAa).-The caesantAa can be produced at the request of the interested party, as disciplinary sanction of dismissal or ineptitude.

The staff requesting your caesantAa will not be able to leave office until you have been notified of the acceptance of your application. The caesantAa and the retirement pass cannot be granted when the policyâ is subject to administrative summary.

ArtAculoA 74.A (PA©loss of the Police State).-The Police State is lost by the caesantAa disposed by the Executive Branch, whatever it is at the request of the staff, in charge of disciplinary sanction imposed in the respective administrative procedure, or also as a result of the conviction established by a firm and enforceable judgment, handed down by the judicial authority, which provides for the application of a penalty incompatible with the exercise of the public functions.

The loss of the Police State does not necessarily matter that of the rights to retirement and pension that may correspond to the member of the police personnel or their habitants.

ArtAculoA 75.A (Modes).-Police personnel will pass withdrawal to their application or in a mandatory manner, in this last case for the causes established in this law and other applicable provisions.

Voluntary withdrawal is the one that occurs at the request of the holder.

The mandatory withdrawal is the one that occurs when police personnel reach the maximum legal age of stay in office and meet the requirements for the granting of passivity.

CAPATULO IX

FROM DISCIPLINARY RA%GIMEN

ArtAculoA 76.A (Scope of disciplinary action).-The present provisions apply to police personnel and will be complemented by the timely regulation of the Executive Branch.

The police personnel will be responsible for administrative responsibility and will be subject to the police disciplinary regime, while they are in activity and up to four years after their retirement.

ArtAculoA 77.A (Due procedure).-Declare the artAculoA 66 of the Constitution of the Republic is applicable to all cases of fault of fault, without the objective notoriety of the fact imputed exima to the respective authority to give the person concerned the opportunity to present proof of discharge, to properly articulate his defence and to make all the discards he considers relevant for this purpose.

ArtAculo 78. -A ("Non bis in Adem"). The police personnel shall not be called to disciplinary responsibility in more than one opportunity for the same fact, without prejudice to the civil or criminal responsibilities that may correspond in those to the specific fields of competence.

Without prejudice to the foregoing, the accumulation of penalties may result in the instruction of administrative summary on the grounds of ineptitude for the exercise of the office.

ArtAculoA 79.A (Present of innocence).-Police personnel subject to disciplinary proceedings are entitled to respect for their honour and recognition of their dignity, and their innocence shall be presumed as long as your responsibility is not established by firm resolution dictated with due process garantAas.

ArtAculo 80.A (Disciplinary Officers. Concept and classes).-The disciplinary lack is any action or omission of the police personnel, intentional or guilty, that violates the duties imposed by the Police State.

Their severity is classified into minor, severe, and very serious faults. The determination of the faults according to their gravity will be established by the respective regulations that the Executive Branch dictates.

ArtAculoA 81.A (Of the disciplinary sanctions).-The sanction is the administrative measure imposed by the command, in exercise of its disciplinary power, as a consequence of the failure committed, in reason of which must be proportional to the aquilla entity.

These are applicable penalties, if applicable, the following:

A) Written observation.

B) Demorite.

C) Suspense in the function from one to thirty days with total deprivation of assets.

D) Suspense in the function for up to six months in the year

E) Dismissal.

Mild faults will be sanctioned with observation or demotion.

Serious faults will be with suspension in the function of one to thirty days, with total deprivation of assets.

For your part, very serious faults will matter the suspension in the function for a period that will range from a fortnight to six months, with partial or total deprivation of assets, or with dismissal.

ArtAculoA 82.A (Effects of sanctions).-The penalties set forth in the above article will bring the negative score to the effects of the rating as determined by the Regulations and consist of the following:

A) The written observation is the simple sign of the superior of an incorrect or minor omission, that the good of the service demands is revealed, calling the attention of the subaltern to reflect, amend and correct the behavior, not returning it to repeat in the future.

B) The demorite sanction is to award the penalty for the offense committed from 01 to 30 points as a negative factor for the effects of the qualification.

C) The suspension in the function of one to fifteen salary days on the Nominal monthly salary received by the policyA at the time the failure was committed.

D) The suspension in the function consists of the temporary cessation of the police or civil police of all the functions you have the sanctioned for up to six months in the year.

A suspension for up to three months will be without pay, or with half of the salary, according to the case severity. The one that exceeds this term, will always be unpaid.

Over time during the which the polyaa is suspended is not considered to be worked and therefore will not be contemplated for the age-old at the police institute, nor for the age-old in the grade, nor for the jubilatory effects, nor for any other concept that implies effective work, maintaining health coverage.

ArtAculoA 83.A (Graduation of the faults).-The disciplinary faults, taking into account their nature, will be made of the following sanctions:

Mild Fhighs:

A) Written observation.

B) Demotus from 1 to 15 points.

C) Suspend one to ten days.

Severe high-ups:

A) Demoto 16 to 30 points.

B) Suspend from eleven to thirty days.

C) Suspense in the function up to three months without salary, or with half the salary, according to the severity of the case.

Very severe high-ups:

A) Suspense in the three-month function and a dAa for up to six months with total salary deprivation.

B) Remove.

A The dismissal will be imported in all cases for the loss of the held assets as a preventive measure.

ArtAculoA 84.A (Causal of administrative summaries).-The disciplinary sanctions of suspension greater than thirty days and removal, will be imposed upon the execution of an administrative summary.

The remaining penalties will be available without any other formality that the notification to the staff of the fault that is imputed to you, grants you previously seen for the term of five days to join them in order to articulate their defense.

ArtAculoA 85.A (Resources).-Against disciplinary penalties, you can interject the recall and jerico resources in subsidy, as set by the article 317 of the Constitution of the Republic and other rules in force.

ArtAculoA 86.A (Disciplinary Potential).-The penalties for very serious misconduct shall be imposed by the holder of the Ministry of the Interior, except that of dismissal, which shall be disposed of by the Executive Branch, as expected in numa 10) of

The applicable penalties for serious misconduct shall be adopted by the hierarchy of the respective executing unit and, the remaining, by the Head of the unit in which the staff performs duties.

ArtAculoA 87.A (Of the procedures).-The disciplinary procedures will be established by the respective regulations dictated by the Executive Branch.

ArtAculoA 88.A (Total number of assets).-When a policyA is processed for any reason, the administrative summary instruction should be provided in a prescriptive manner.

If the processing is with preventive prior or application of alternative penalties, the total retention of assets should be available, for the duration of the detention or the alternative measure provided by the Justice.

In cases where the processing with preventive or application of alternative penalties has been for a crime that has occurred as a result of the performance of the function assuming compliance with the law, the Minister of the Internal resolution may be based on the non-application of the holding of assets mentioned in the above incisoA.

ArtAculo 89.A (Prescription of administrative faults).-Administrative faults prescribe:

A) When In constitute a criminal offence, in the term of a crime or conviction imposed by a firm sentence.

B) When they do not constitute a crime, minor faults will be prescribed in the 1990s dAs and serious and very serious faults will be prescribed to the year, counted from the commission of the fault

The prescription set forth in this article is suspended by the resolution of the hierarchy of the executing unit that has the beginning of an emergency information procedure, of an administrative investigation or the instruction of summary.

ArtAculoA 90.A (Independence of procedures).-The disciplinary authority is independent of the judicial procedure that could be substantiated, in the manner of the conduct accomplished by the police personnel.

TATULO V

TRANSIENT PROVISIONS

ArtAculoA 91.A (On the integration of the created phonaire system).-The integration of the scale system created in the artAculsA 47, 48, 49, and 50 of this law, with relation to the Scale of Officers and Basis Scale, will be performed in the following manner and according to the regulations that the Executive Branch is timely to dictate:

A) Officers Scale:

General Commissioner: will be integrated with grades 13 and 14 of the modified scale system this law.

Major Commissar: will be integrated with grades 11 and 12 of the stagger system.

Commissioner: will integrate with grade 10 of the scale system.

Deputy Commissioner: will be integrated with grade 9 of the

Main Officer: will be integrated with system grade 8

Adjutant Officer: will be integrated with grades 6 and 7 of the system

B) Basic Scale:

Subofficial: se integrate with grades 5 and 6 (Major Subofficial) of the scale system.

Sergeant: se integrate with grade 4 of the scale system.

Cape: will be integrated with grades 2 and 3 of the scale system.

Agent, Coracero, Fireman, or Guard: it will be integrated with grade 1 of the scale system.

TATULO VI

CAPATULO I

REPEAL provisions

ArtAculoA 92. -A As of the instrumentalization of the provisions of the Title V, you will be sure to make all those provisions that are opposed or contravened to the integration of the new, created-scale-scale.

ArtAculoA 93. -A Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 92, all provisions that are opposed or contravened to the provisions of this law shall be prohibited.

For the purpose of financing the new scale of police degrees, the Executive Branch may transform the police charges and the vacancies of the rest of the steps of the Subsection, adapting them to the needs of the respective units. (a) the execution of the Ministry of the Interior, which may have the effect of having the same group or non-listed items as the Type of Credit 3, as well as 50% (50%) of the items authorized by the Ministry of the Interior. artAculoA 207 and 100% (one hundred per cent) of those authorised by Article 208, both of the Law No. 18,719, of December 27, 2010, not being able to make these transformations mean budget cost for the Subsection. From the rationalisation ready will be given to the General Assembly.

ArtAculoA 94. -A This law will govern from the 1st January 2016.

A A A A A A Sala de Sessions de la CA ¡ mara de Senators, in Montevideo, a 11 February 2015.

DANILO ASTORI,
President.
Hugo RodrAguez Filippini,
Secretary.

MINISTRY OF INTERIOR
TO MINISTRY OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
TO MINISTRY OF LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY

Montevideo, 18 February 2015.

Cúmplase, acorsese recibo, comunAquese, publáquese e inséltese en el Registro Nacional de Leitos y Decretos, la Ley por la que se lorden la Ley Orgà ¡ nica Policial.

JOSA% MUJICA.
JORGE VÁZQUEZ.
MARIO BERGARA.
NELSON LOUSTAUNAU.

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