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The Scientific, Penal and Criminalistic Investigation Service Corps (Spanish: Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas, CICPC) is Venezuela's largest national police agency, responsible for criminal investigations and forensic services. It replaced the Cuerpo Técnico de Policía Judicial (PTJ) in 2001. [1]
The Ministry of the Popular Power for Interior, Justice and Peace (Ministerio del Poder Popular para Relaciones Interiores, Justicia y Paz) is one of 39 agencies that make up the executive office of the Venezuelan government.
On 2 December 2020, the Organization of American States General Secretariat released a 145-page report expanding on the 2018 report by the Panel of Independent Experts that concluded there was a reasonable basis to believe crimes against humanity were being committed in Venezuela, noting that since 2018 the crimes against humanity in Venezuela ...
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Venezuela's judicial system has been deemed the most corrupt in the world by Transparency International in 2014. [104] Human Rights Watch claimed that in 2004, President Hugo Chávez and his allies took over the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, filling it with his supporters and adding measures so the government could dismiss justices from the court.
Venezuela's judicial system has been deemed the most corrupt in the world by Transparency International. [3] Human Rights Watch claims that some judges may face reprisals if they rule against government interests. [4] According to a 2014 Gallup poll, 61% of Venezuelans lack confidence in the judicial system. [5]
In July 1998 Venezuela's criminal law was radically reformed, with the replacement of the 1926 code with the Código Orgánico Procesal Penal. [3] The old secret sumario phase was abolished, and defendants had the immediate right to a lawyer on arrest or indictment. [ 3 ]
The Public Ministry of Venezuela is an organ belonging to Citizen Power, it has autonomous and independent character. It is under the direction of the Attorney General of the Republic who is elected by the National Assembly for a period of seven years.