The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) will leave its headquarters which it has occupied since 2018 in Bogotá, on Calle 64 with Carrera Septima, and will move to a much smaller building. The decision responds to cut of $181,402 million approved for the entity in the General Budget of the Nation of 2027.
The current headquarters has about 15,000 square meters and The new one will have about 4,200which would represent an approximate savings of $26,000 million. According to information known by this means, The building will be delivered before March and The move will begin in the coming weeks..
The building where the JEP operates is valued at $41,176 million. Photo:Claudia Rubio.
The headquarters of the entire JEP will remain in the building where the headquarters of the Investigation and Prosecution Unit (UIA)located at Avenida El Dorado #69A-51, Interior 1, Tower A, in Bogotá.
The property has four floorsin front of the twelve of the current headquarters of Chapinero, on 64th street with seventh avenue, which the jurisdiction has occupied since 2018.
The space will not be enough for the nearly 1,400 employees of the entity or for contractors. For this reason, Rojas said, virtuality will be the rule and there will be rotating shifts of assistance. In the new headquarters there will be shared positions and fewer courtrooms, and regional offices will have the same adjustment.
Among the details of the transfer, it was learned that there will be a coworking floor and? the small available offices will be rotated among the magistrates.
According to versions known by this means, the reduction of spaces would be generating differences between some magistrates and the Investigation and Prosecution Unit (UIA) due to the distribution of jobs in the new headquarters.
Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP). Photo:Courtesy
The JEP hopes to issue before December 15 of this year the accusations, while the 29 pending cases of the UIA They would have a maximum deadline of March 2028 to present their accusations.
Remote and shared work poses a security challenge of the information. Magistrates have expressed concern about teleworking being difficult in a coworking scheme and would put the information at very high risk due to possible leaks. It is also noted that there is a physical file and that support is required for finance a highly encrypted storage system of all the information.
The austerity package includes two other measures. The first is the reduction of protection schemes, with a estimated savings of $37 billion. Rojas said he does not have an escort and that other magistrates will reduce theirs. In addition, 17 prosecutors from the Investigation and Prosecution Unit They will deliver their schematicsincluding vehicles, and the executive secretary will do the same.
Rojas described it as the most difficult and painful apply similar cut to witness protectionvictims and defendants. Furthermore, he requested the national government to assume that responsibilitywhich according to the regulations corresponds to it.
The second measure is the cut of 85% of contracts of service provision, which will end at the end of 2026 and will not be renewed, with a savings of $85,000 million. A good part of these contracts supported the technical defense of the appearing parties.
The JEP has around 17,000 and one internal public defender’s office with no more than 30 officials. They also supported psychosocial care for victims in reconciliation and restoration hearings. Rojas said that the staff will have to be modified to fill that void and the entity cannot leave without defense to those who appear.
The president Rojas warned that the adjustments come in the stage of greater productivity in the jurisdiction. Before December 15, The JEP expects to issue between 10 and 20 charges.
Resolutions of conclusions are planned for 2027 and the beginning of the trials. “We are forced to do more with less”Judge Rojas pointed out, and said that will go to Congress and the Government to raise the need to recover resources.
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