During a ceremony in which 33 policemen from Bogotá participated, of the 1,200 that concluded the Training Workshop in Psychosocial Approach, in more than 30 cities of the country, the Interinstitutional Management Directorate and the Reparations Department of the Unit formalized the closing of this pedagogical exercise that contributed to improve the attention to the victims from the police institution.
With more than three months dedicated to this task, the Victims Unit, in compliance with the agreement 1279 of 2017 signed with the National Police, carried out for the first time a series of training sessions for more than a thousand National Police officers in the field of care, active listening, emotional management, reparation, Human Rights and action without harm.
This exercise, better known as mainstreaming, addressed a total of 30 cities in 25 departments and the capital district, responding to the need to materialize, from a perspective of integral reparation, actions in terms of assistance and adequate dialogue on the part of a of the institutions to which victims most go in their search for information or support.
Starting from the premise that the damage the armed conflict has left to the victims in Colombia, has not only been individual physical, but has significantly affected other dimensions, including emotional integrity, which is important to know how to treat, the National Police ordered 1,200 officials at the national level to be trained in this area. At the same time, they potentiated tools of active listening, empathy and recognition of victimizing facts and proper treatment.
“It is a fundamental pillar in the provision of the police service, because an articulated service is carried out with learning, which seeks to attend and guide from our mission, without revictimizing the citizen against the damage caused in the context of the armed conflict, which can be evidence or arise as an impact on physical, moral and psychological integrity, as well as a life project, “said patrolman Brayan Leonardo Moreno, of the Metropolitan of Bogotá, at the end of the last class.
