Defense for PNP Mayor David Medina is filing an appeal to revise his pension certificate.

Legal Defense Major of the National Police of Peru (PNP), David MedinaColonel’s right hand Harvey Quiltedfiled an appeal against the decision Ministry of the Interior December 23, 2022, who decided to retire.

In a document accessed by RPP Noticias, a PNP major asked for an adequate assessment of the officers “immersed in a regular process of personnel renewal, and order my reinstatement to active duty.”

arguments

David Medina claimed that in his entire professional career in the police department, he was never brought to trial.

With regard to the ministerial ruling, he argued that the argument for cadre renewal “is the exclusive right of the executive” within the constitutional function of the police, “without violating the PPP officer’s life project”.

In addition, it stated that the renewal of the cadre was not advisable because it did not meet the age limit set for the degree, and that it “could not be a legal authorization to disrupt the life plans of the professionals who make up the police institution, and depending on the institutional needs.”

He also questioned whether there were older PPP officers who had disciplinary action and were not subject to disciplinary action, as in his case.

What did the head minister say?

At the end of December, the Minister of the Interior Victor Rojas Herrera, He pointed out that the resignation of PNP Major David Medina was due to an evaluation carried out a few weeks earlier by the evaluation committee, and that “this is strictly in accordance with the legal framework and technical aspects.”

“There are certain conditions for transferring an officer to a position of retirement or personnel renewal. One of them is that he does not have a career line in the institution, which is the specific case of a major who has been in this rank for 10 years. He did not pass the staff courses, which is a necessary condition for achieving the immediate higher rank, that is, commander. In disciplinary terms, he has five days of strict arrest, precisely for violation of decency,” the head of the department said. That’s how we are RPP.

“The special group has not chosen the grade of major, it is subordinate to the group of graded officers, so much so that this year 65 colonels, 61 commanders and 40 majors have retired,” he added.

Three members of the PNP team remain

General Command National Police formalized its decision to cancel the transfer to other units of three captains of the PPP special group that supports the investigations of the group of prosecutors to combat corruption in the government.

By a decree of January 1, 2023, this institution changes what is connected with the appointment of Bruno Fernando Cacique Guevara, Essi Catherine Fernandez Rivera and Gian Marco Dueñas Chávez “due to the need for service”.

It was the Minister of the Interior, Victor Rojas Herrera, who announced before the end of 2022 that the change of units of these police officers is canceled after this decision was made public by the coordinator Special group of prosecutors to combat corruption in powersuperior prosecutor Marita Barreto.