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THE PROVINCIAL CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES ENACTS WITH FORCE OF

L E Y :

TITLE I

PRINCIPLES OF ACTION

PROVINCIAL POLICE

CHAPTER I

MISSION AND DEPENDENCY

ARTICLE 1.- The Police of the Province of La Rioja is the Institution that has to
His responsibility is the maintenance of public order and social peace. He exercises it by himself.
functions that the Laws, Decrees, and Regulations establish with the aim of
protect the life, property, and other rights of the population. It carries out its
functions throughout the territory of the Province, respecting the rights
constitutional.

ARTICLE 2.- The Provincial Police depends on the Executive Branch.

through the Ministry of Government, Justice, Security, and Human Rights and in
direct form of the Secretary of Security or the body that replaces it. Its
The highest authority is the Chief of Police.

ARTICLE 3.- The Provincial Police will provide collaboration and action
supplementary in the cases provided for by the current regulations to the Members of the
Public Ministry and the Judiciary Power of the Province and when applicable to the
Prosecutors, Judges, and Federal Authorities.
In the same way, permanent cooperation will be the rule of conduct in the
relationships with other bodies of the Public Administration, in matters that
they are the responsibility of these Institutions within the Provincial Territory.
The cooperation, collaboration, and coordination of procedures with other forces
police, will comply with the standards established by current laws and to the
agreements concluded for that purpose.

ARTICLE 4.- In all its actions, the Police will defend rights
constitutional rights of the inhabitants or of people who are in it,
in accordance with the principles of action laid down in this Law.
The injury or attempt to injure such rights will be considered a very serious offense, and
will constitute grounds for expulsion from the Police Force, prior to the summary that
ensure the right to defense of the involved party, without prejudice to the measures
precautions that may correspond.
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ARTICLE 5.- In the absence of the Federal Authority, the Police personnel
will intervene for actions occurring in the jurisdiction and competence of those, to the
only effect of preventing the crime, ensuring the infringing person or carrying out the
necessary and urgent measures for the preservation of evidence.
You must immediately notify the competent Authority, putting to
proceedings instructed in connection with the procedure, the detainees
and objects and instruments of the crime, if there are any.

ARTICLE 6.- All members of the Police Institution, in any

moment and place of the Province must carry out their own acts of
police security functions, as long as they meet the requirements
required by current regulations.

ARTICLE 7.- The acts carried out by Police Personnel that do not have
competence in the place of the procedure will be valid when the following are met
the requirements imposed by the legislation.

ARTICLE 8.- When personnel of the Provincial Police, due to the pursuit
immediate from authors or suspects of serious crimes, must penetrate a territory
from another Province or National Jurisdiction, it will be adjusted to the rules that apply to such
effects establish the applicable procedural laws. This will always be
immediate communication to the competent authority, indicating the causes
of the procedure and its results.

CHAPTER II

FUNCTIONS

ARTICLE 9°.- The function of Security Police is essentially the

maintenance of public order, social peace, the preservation of security
public and the prevention, conjuration, and investigation of crime.

ARTICLE 10.- For the purposes of the previous Article, it is the responsibility of the Police
Provincial:

a) Prevent and suppress any disturbance of public order, ensuring

especially the tranquility of the population, the security of the
people and property against any attack or threat.
b) To provide for the security of State assets.
Ensure the full validity of the Powers through their Functions:
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial; the constitutional order and the free exercise
from political organizations, preventing and repressing any action or
attack that attempts to subvert it.

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d) Provide police custody for the holders of the Executive Function,

Legislative and Judicial, adopting all security measures on their own
that are necessary.
Defend people and property threatened by danger
imminent, in case of fire, flood, explosion, and other disasters.
f) Develop all activities of observation and surveillance aimed at
prevent crime and apply, for that purpose, the necessary means and resources.
g) Intervene in the conduct of public meetings, solely for the purpose of
maintain order, prevent, and where appropriate, avert crime, incidents and
riots.
h) Ensure order in National and Provincial elections,
Municipal elections and the oversight of the elections in accordance with the respective
provisions.
i) Control and apply the provisions governing traffic on the road
public. Adopt temporary provisions when circumstances of
public order and security impose it.
j) Intervene through the respective control, in the sale, possession, carrying,
transport and other acts related to weapons and explosives,
monitoring compliance with the current laws and regulations in
the matter. Grant and manage permission for the acquisition and carrying of
civil use weapons, in cases where the Law and regulations
complementary will determine it.
k) Exercise the Police of Security for minors, especially regarding
it refers to its protection and to any act that threatens physical health
or moral in the ways that laws or administrative acts determine.
l) Monitor the sports and leisure meetings, arranging the
measures that are necessary to ensure the safety of the event.
Rescue people who have diminished mental capacities
or altered, which are found in public places and when there is serious danger
risk their physical integrity and/or that of third parties, handing them over to their
relatives, caregivers or guardians. In the absence of responsible parties, one
will immediately intervene with the Justice.
n) Regarding things and/or objects that have been abandoned and whose origin is unknown.
its origin and owner, justice must be involved,
when the situation warrants it in order to take the measures that are deemed necessary
pertinent.
o) Dictate preventive measures and determine the organization of the Service
the Fight Against Fire and other disasters by themselves and coordinated with
the National and/or Provincial authorities in the matter.
p) Provide additional police service within your jurisdiction, in the
cases and forms determined by the regulations.

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q) To exercise the powers attributed to it in matters of contraventions

Contraventional Code and/or current regulations in the matter.
r) Cooperate with the Federal Justice Authorities in the prevention and
fight against drug trafficking, human trafficking, and other crimes of its kind
competition.
Provide technical assistance and advice on Security matters.
the Public and Private Organizations that request it.

CHAPTER III

ATTRIBUTIONS

ARTICLE 11.- In the exercise of the Security Police function, it may:

a) Provide the necessary regulations to implement provisions

legal or to give orders when the compliance with the Laws requires it
they demand and in the cases they determine.
b) Issue personal documentation, background certificates and others
credentials mandated by regulations.
c) Monitor, record, and assess individuals who are usually dedicated to a
activity that the Police must prevent or repress, respecting the limits
established by constitutional guarantees.
d) To oversee the practice of regulated professions or activities
on which the Police have the authority to act.
e) Inspect, for preventive purposes, the documentation of the vehicles
in public roads, workshops, public garages, and sales premises. Control
drivers and passengers of the vehicles that are in
circulation.
f) Enforce the National, Provincial and/or Traffic regulations.
Current municipal regulations, creating violation reports and carrying out all the
tasks determined in Law No. 9.046; and those that in the future the
replace or complement.
g) Integrate the Provincial Road Safety Council or Councils
Traffic Safety Departments, informing, advising and
proposing measures for greater security on routes and roads.
h) Access the records of hotels, guesthouses and
related establishments and inspect them, respecting the
constitutional guarantees control the movements of passengers,
guests and pensioners, as far as it concerns the Police function of
Security and compliance with respective edicts and ordinances.

ARTICLE 12.- The Provincial Police is the representative and custodian of the
public force in their jurisdiction. In such capacity, it is exclusive to them:
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a) Provide assistance from the public force to the National Authorities,

Provincial and Municipal, when compliance is required
your services.
b) Use force when necessary, maintain order,
guarantee safety, prevent the commission of the crime and in every other
act of legitimate exercise.
c) Ensure the timely defense of persons or their authority, for what
which the agent may use physical force or direct coercion,
according to the principles of action provided in this Law.
d) In public meetings that must be dissolved due to disturbance of
order or in which people with weapons or objects that could participate
to use as such to attack under such circumstances, the force will be
employee after the regulatory notices were disobeyed and
in accordance with the principles of action established in this Law.

ARTICLE 13.- The powers that result from the preceding articles do not
they exclude others that, in matters of order and public security and prevention of
crime, are essential to exercise for reasons of general interest.

CHAPTER IV

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ACTION

ARTICLE 14.- The actions of the Police must strictly adjust to

principle of reasonableness, avoiding all kinds of abusive, arbitrary or
discriminatory that involves physical or moral violence against people, as well as
also at the beginning of graduality, prioritizing tasks and the procedure
preventive and deterrent before the effective use of force.

ARTICLE 15.- The Police Personnel must adjust their behavior during the
performance of their functions according to the following Basic Principles of Action:

a. Perform with responsibility, respect for the community,

impartiality and equality in the enforcement of the Law, protecting the
rights of individuals.
b. Act by keeping in mind the full and unrestricted respect for Rights
Humans, especially the right to life, to freedom, to integrity and
dignity of individuals, without any kind of emergency or order of
a superior can justify submission to torture or other treatments
cruel, inhuman or degrading, in which case authorization is granted for the
disobedience.
c. Ensure the full protection of the physical, mental, and moral integrity of
the people under their care or custody.

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d. Refrain from any situation that involves a conflict of interest or

the obtaining of undue advantage or benefit from your authority or function,
pursue non-profit ends.
e. Ensure compliance with constitutional and legal norms,
regulatory during their actions or those of other forces, agencies or
agencies with which joint or combined work is carried out, or
in the behaviors of natural or legal persons, public or private with
those that are related, must immediately report any
non-compliance or of the act of corruption to the Superior Authority or
competent control organism.
f. Keep confidential matters confidential,
particularly those relating to honor, life, and private interests of
the people of whom I had knowledge, unless compliance
of their functions or the needs of justice strictly require it
opposite.
Exert physical force or direct coercion in the interest of safeguarding the
security only to put an end to a situation in which, despite the
warning or other means of persuasion used by the official
of the service, persists in the breach of the law or in misconduct
grave. The use of force will be a last resort and any action that
may undermine the rights of individuals will be enforceable
gradual, avoiding causing a greater harm to their rights, of
third parties or their property and/or misuse or excessive use of force,
verbal abuse or mere rudeness.
h. Resort to the use of firearms only in cases of legitimate defense.
self-defense, or that of others, or where there is serious and imminent danger,
current for the lives of protected persons or to prevent the commission
of a crime that entails that same danger, must act in such a way as to
minimize possible damages and injuries.
To prioritize the preservation of life over the eventual success of the action.
human, the physical integrity of individuals, when there is a risk of
affect such assets.
j. Identify as service officials when the employment of the
force and firearms is inevitable. As much as possible and
reasonable, to give a clear warning of their intention to use force
or firearms with enough time for it to be
taken into account, except that when giving that warning it was put
unduly endangering protected persons or the official of the
service, a certain risk will be created for your lives and those of other people
it will obviously be inadequate or useless given the circumstances
of the case.

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ARTICLE 16.- In the Police, there shall be no duty of obedience when the order
granted is manifestly illegitimate and/or illegal or its execution constitutes or
I can configure crime.
If the content of the order implied the commission of a minor disciplinary offense or
The subordinate must raise the objection whenever the urgency of the
the situation permits it.

ARTICLE 17°.- Under no circumstances shall the Police Personnel, within the framework of
actions and activities specific to their missions and functions, may:

a. Inducing third parties to commit criminal acts or that may affect

intimacy and privacy of individuals.

b. Obtain information, produce intelligence or store data about

people solely because of their race, religious faith, private actions or
political opinion or affiliation or membership in political organizations,
social, union, community, cooperative, assistance, cultural or
labor, as well as by the lawful activity they carry out in any
sphere of action.

CHAPTER V

OTHER PROVISIONS

ARTICLE 18.- The actions taken by the Police Officials in

compliance with legal obligation or order of Competent Authority will be valid
unless they are declared null by legitimate means, except in cases expressly
contemplated in the Procedural Code of the Province.

ARTICLE 19°.- The Provincial Police as an auxiliary of Justice,

it will depend on the tax requirement and its relevant authorizations to
home searches for the purpose of investigation, detention of individuals and
kidnappings. This authorization will not be necessary if the investigation procedure
must be carried out in public establishments, businesses, premises, centers of
meeting or break, industrial and rural establishments and other open places
to the public with no exceptions other than the dependencies of their owners,
understood as any room or space intended for living, as such
also the offices of the management or administration.

ARTICLE 20.- The Provincial Police in order to carry out the tasks
appropriate to its function, will facilitate the transportation of its personnel and will ensure their
communications, may enter into Agreements with entities providing the
services, whatever their nature, for the purposes of the use of the
necessary means.

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ARTICLE 21.- The Provincial Police may not be used for purposes
private politicians, nor summoned to functions that are not established in this
Law. Orders or directives that contravene these rules will authorize the
disobedience.
ARTICLE 22.- As a form of cooperation and on a reciprocal basis, the
Police officials may act subsidiarily in events that occurred in the
territorial jurisdictions of other police that specifically correspond to
the competition of these and in their absence.
For the purposes of the coordination established in this Chapter, the
organism responsible for centralizing and distributing all the information,
communications between the Provincial Police and other National Police
Provinces and/or foreign countries, it will be the Strategic Planning Directorate,
through the Department of Police Agreements.
ARTICLE 23.- The Police of the Province may:
a) Establish agreements with other National and Provincial Police forces with
purposes of cooperation, reciprocity, and mutual assistance, to facilitate action
police.
b) Maintain relationships with foreign police for the purposes of cooperation and
international coordination for the pursuit of crime and in
especially regarding human trafficking, organ trafficking,
smugglers, drug traffickers and counterfeiters of
coin.
The previously regulated, in the various Chapters of this Title, does not
it constitutes an exhaustive enumeration and does not hinder the powers that generally belong to it
correspond to the Police for the fulfillment of their duties.

ARTICLE 24.- The uniforms, insignia, badges, and symbols adopted by the
Provincial Police for the use of the Institution and its personnel, as well as
distinctive features of their vehicles and equipment are exclusive and cannot
to be used in the same or similar manner by no other public organization or
private. No Provincial or Municipal administrative body may use the
the designation 'Police' in its institutional sense, except for the exceptions that
establish the Law, with regard to specific matters outside of those covered by this
Law establishes neither equipping its personnel with weapons for public use, nor
use ranks of the police hierarchy.

ARTICLE 25.- The use of the identification or denomination is prohibited.

"Provincial Police" in any particular publication. Likewise, it is prohibited to
use of that expression in texts of magazines, brochures, newspapers, and credentials or
any type of documentation, issued by individuals or private entities
that could lead to confusion in the sense of belonging to the Police of the
Province or issued by the Organization. In case of violation, action will be taken.
to the seizure of the elements, with the mentioned Authority being in charge.
Institution.
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TITLE II

POLICE ORGANIZATION

CHAPTER I

ORGANIZATION AND MEDIA

ARTICLE 26.- The Provincial Police will have funds and human resources.
aimed at meeting your functional requirements and auxiliary services
according to the credits granted by the Budget Law. To that end, the Head Office
The Police will annually raise the budgetary needs for the next
Financial Exercise.

ARTICLE 27.- The human resources assigned to the Provincial Police are
are unfolded into the following independent groupings:

1) Security Group, formed by the following bodies:

a) Citizen Public Security.

b) Special Bodies, created by decrees of the Executive Branch.
c) Communications.

2) Grouping of Research, responsible for the tasks of

research, police intelligence and collaboration with the Ministry
Fiscal Public and the other judicial authorities, as provided for in
this Law and those that organize Criminal Justice.

3) Grouping of staff and logistics, in charge of the services

professionals, technical and administrative support for police work.

ARTICLE 28.- The Police Personnel will exclusively belong to one of the
groupings and will have a unique professional career within it
grouping, organized based on the following profiles:

1.- Police Security Ranking.

2.- Detective Ranking.
3.- Staff Assistant Ranking.

The incorporation and development of the career of Police Personnel

in each profile, they must result from the vocational option of the agents as well as
also of the training and education they receive and of professional performance
during the exercise of its functions, in accordance with the provisions of the Law of
Police Personnel, without prejudice to the aforementioned, only once in
the professional career, the Police Personnel who serve in one of
the groupings provided for in this Law may continue their career
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professional in another grouping, as long as they meet the required criteria for
hello and meet the required eligibility and assessment conditions, according to
establish the regulation.

ARTICLE 29.- The Hierarchical Scale of Police Personnel within each one
The independent rankings will be determined by the Personnel Law.
Police, as long as no needs arise from technical evolution.
scientific of the Institution. The Executive Function may make modifications
within each rank, respecting said independence.

ARTICLE 30.- The members of the Civil Personnel will adjust to the needs
imposed by the activities that correspond specifically, in accordance with
this Law and its complementary provisions. Civil Personnel will not have status
police officer, and for no reason will they hold positions of police command. They will only be
called to perform duties or functions related to their profession, specialization or
administrative category.

CHAPTER II

HIGHER POLICE AUTHORITIES

ARTICLE 31.- The Higher Structure of the Provincial Police will be

composed of:

• One (1) Boss,

• One (1) Deputy Chief,
• Thirteen (13) General Directions and
• One (1) Public Defender of Police.

The General Directions will be as follows:

Security Grouping:
a. General Directorate of Security.
b. General Directorate of Strategic Planning.
c. General Directorate of Special Bodies.
d. General Directorate of Traffic Control and Road Safety.

B. Grouping of Researches:
General Directorate of Investigations.
b. General Directorate of Drug Trafficking Prevention and Investigation, Trafficking
of People and Complex Investigations.
c. General Directorate of Police Intelligence and Criminal Analysis.
d. General Directorate of Laboratories and Forensic Corps.

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C. Personnel Grouping:
a. General Directorate of Administration and Logistics.
b. General Directorate of Human Resources and Finance.
c. General Directorate of Security Institutes.
d. General Directorate of Internal Affairs.
e. General Directorate of Professional Affairs.

In each Directorate, they will be established by Decree of the Executive Function,

Specific Bodies or Departments that are necessary for the best
development of functions.

ARTICLE 32.- It shall be the responsibility of the Chief of Police to exercise command of the
Institution and its representation before other authorities. In particular,
it will have the following functions:

a) Propose to the Executive Function the appointments and promotions of

Police and Civil Personnel of the Institution.
b) Grant the licenses of Police or Civil Personnel according to the regulations
regulatory.
c) Exercise the disciplinary powers corresponding to the position, in accordance with
to this Law and its Regulation.
d) Verify the police awards established and assess the facts that may arise
capable of being considered as of Extraordinary Merit.
e) Exercise the powers assigned to it by the Laws and Regulations, in
regarding the investment of funds and the financial regime of the Institution.
f) Provide the organization, control, and modification of police services.
g) Facilitate the approval of the Decrees before the Executive Function
relevant to modify norms of the General Regulations,
adapting them to the evolution of the Institution.
h) Facilitate before the Executive Function, the reform of the Regulations
corresponding to the organization and functioning of its
dependencies.
i) Create, modify or delete lower dependencies that do not alter the
Organic Structure of the Police.
j) Fulfill the duties and exercise the powers that, without being
expressly stated, whether they are a consequence of their functions or
of legal provisions related to the Institution.

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k) Request the Executive Function, based on the Laws and regulations

existing, the disciplinary dismissal of senior and subordinate staff,
either in a state of dismissal or exemption, as applicable; consisting
in the separation of the cause of the Institution with loss of status
Police and the rights inherent to them.
l) Annually appoint the official who will serve as the President of
Disciplinary Tribunal to judge retired police personnel.
Preside the Disciplinary Tribunal for Senior Police Personnel,
signing their opinions.
m) Preside the Qualification Board for promotions of Police Personnel
Superior of the Institution.

ARTICLE 33.- It will be the responsibility of the Deputy Chief of Police to participate in the

supervision and intervene in the operational and administrative functioning of the

dependencies of the Institution that are subordinate to it, to cooperate in its action
with that of the Chief of Police, substituting for him in his absence, illness or
delegation, with all the obligations and powers that correspond to it and
propose modifications that he considers appropriate, for improvement or updating
of the services.

ARTICLE 34.- It will depend directly on the Police Chief:

a) The Police High Command.

b) The General Secretariat.

LaPlana Mayor will be the Governing Body for Planning, Coordination, and
Advice on all police activities that take place in the
Province and will be based in the Capital city.
You must ensure the most efficient provision of police service, the adequate
use of the human, technical, and logistical resources of the Institution, the
respect for the Constitution and the Laws of the Province and the full compliance with
all the functions assigned to it by current regulations.
The Regional Chiefs will join her, who may participate at the request of
Mr. Chief of Police, in the periodic meetings that you summon for this purpose.
Authority.

ARTICLE 35.- The General Secretariat will have the mission to understand everything
procedures related to the Administrative Services that the Police must
provide to the public, attending to the Institution's relationships with others
National or provincial public authorities; as well as ordering and
program the information of the job or specific services of it,
of interest to the staff or the community in general, disseminating through the
suitable available means.

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The role of General Secretary of Police will be held by an Officer.

Superior in activity, who will receive an allowance equivalent to the position of
Director.
The General Secretariat will consist of the dependencies established by the
Regulation.

ARTICLE 36.- The Public Defender of the Police will have the following
functions:

1. Address the complaints made by the Police Personnel in their

different ranks and hierarchies, degrees and levels, in a situation of
activity, due to acts committed by their peers to the detriment or threat
of their fundamental rights.
2. Prescribe recommendations and design solution mechanisms for the
assuming that some public authority has committed a violation of
rights or unjustified delay of procedures or processes related to
to the rights of Police Personnel, according to provincial legal regulations
valid.
3. Intervene in all administrative summaries carried out by the Directorate
General Affairs Department, to investigate the actions of the personnel
police ensuring the normality/legality of the process.
4. Attend to and respond to inquiries, observations, comments, suggestions
related to the protection of the rights of Police Personnel and
everything related to labor conditions, health and safety protection in
the exercise of their functions and participate in the design of the policy of
communication related to the hierarchy of the Police Institution.

5. Promote the development of research and the training of personnel

Police. For such purposes, it may sponsor or hold congresses, seminars, and
scientific meetings and participate in those organized by others
entities and advise internal and external training organizations.
6. Propose promotion, prevention, assistance, and integration programs
social aimed at the welfare and development of police personnel, being able to
conduct a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the programs
implemented in prevention, promotion, assistance, and social insertion
carried out by other institutions.
7. Manage attendance for Police Personnel whose economic situation and
social negatively affects the development of the position.
8. Monitor the containment systems for the
treatment of police officers who present psychological disorders or have
participated in confrontations.

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9. Directly promote a culture of respect for rights and

inherent duties of the Police Personnel within the organization
police and regarding provincial and national authorities.

ARTICLE 37.- The General Directorate of Security is the Superior Body of

Operational Management and will be responsible for the execution, coordination, and control of
all general and special security operations that are carried out in
the entire provincial scope, the preservation of order, public safety and
prevention of criminal acts according to the provisions of Title I, Chapter
II, of this Law, on the function of the Security Police, as well as the
conjuration of crimes and the detention of those who commit them in flagrante.

ARTICLE 38.- The General Directorate of Strategic Planning will have

as a mission, the advice and planning of general operations and
specifics applicable to prevention, defining the general objectives and
management specifics and the strategies and tactics for their compliance in order to
optimize the use of available human and logistical resources.

ARTICLE 39.- The General Directorate of Special Bodies will have its
cargo the operations carried out by Special Police Corps or
when the coordination of special activities with other forces is required
police operations or those that involve police operations due to their magnitude or complexity
they require specialized planning or management.

ARTICLE 40.- The General Directorate of Traffic Control and Security

Vial will be in charge of the Traffic Police in the urban area, according to the
agreements made with the Municipalities and the Highway Police on the Roads
National, Provincial, and other roads of the Provincial Territory outside the urban areas
urban, ensuring compliance with the Provincial Traffic Law of
What is your Control Body, the National Law No. 24.449 and the corresponding ones?
regulations that are issued in the matter.

ARTICLE 41.- The General Directorate of Investigations is the Agency

in charge of contributing through their specialized services to the
investigation and prevention of criminal acts. In the inquiry of the
criminal offenses, will have functional dependence on the Public Prosecutor's Office of the
Province and will coordinate with the Body of Investigators of that Institution.
In all cases, they will act in direct coordination with the security forces.
that are competent to intervene in the event, which will be in charge of the
safety of any detained persons, if there are any.

ARTICLE 42.- The General Directorate of Prevention and Investigation of

Drug trafficking, human trafficking, and complex investigations have the mission
to contribute to the prosecution of criminal action, the prevention and averting of
organized crimes and intervene in those investigations that due to their
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complexity assigned to them by the Minister of Government, Justice, Security and

Human Rights, Secretary of Security and Chief of Police. When
correspondence will carry out work in coordination and cooperation with the
Police Forces and Federal Authorities.
ARTICLE 43.- The General Directorate of Police Intelligence and Analysis
The criminal will be in charge of the production meeting and analysis of the information.
necessary for the specific police action, aimed at knowing the activities
from criminal organizations and any other circumstance that allows obtaining a
comprehensive knowledge of the criminal phenomenon in the provincial scope.
It will also carry out criminal statistics and create the crime map.
ARTICLE 44.- The General Directorate of Laboratories and Forensic Body
will be in charge of organizing all the technological and scientific support for the
criminal investigation, the organization of laboratories and police forensic body,
in coordination with similar institutions of the Judicial Function and the
Public Ministry.
ARTICLE 45°.- The General Directorate of Administration and Logistics will have
in his/her role, the functions of planning, organization, execution, control and
coordination of supply, maintenance, rationing, oversight
heritage, communications and other related matters that will be determined by the Regulations of
area, in accordance with the requirements of the respective Divisions and acting
in coordination with them, as well as the organization and management of all
the administrative affairs of the Institution and the provision of service of the
professionals who assist police work in areas not related to the
criminal investigation
ARTICLE 46.- The General Directorate of Human Resources and Finance
will have responsibility for all matters related to the
members of the Police, regarding their situation and work performance,
grading systems, promotions and licenses, records of change of
destination, casualties, withdrawals, and social services of the Institution. It will also be at your
I take on the technical-financial advisory of the Authorities of the Organization and
carry out the procedures related to fund management, payments, and accounting.
of account, etc., according to the provisions of the current regulations in the
matter.
ARTICLE 47.- The General Directorate of Security Institutes will have for
mission to program, organize, direct, coordinate, execute, and evaluate all courses
of recruitment, training, and capacity building of Police Personnel, ensuring their
improvement within police or non-police educational institutions,
being the irreplaceable link of all specific educational activity. It will have to
its responsibility is the organization of specific schools, in particular, the Institute
Superior Security, the General Training School, the School of
Agents, the Shooting School and the other special departments organized by the
respective regulation.
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ARTICLE 48.- The General Directorate of Internal Affairs will be in charge of

to manage organically and functionally the subordinate dependencies of your area,
that intervene in all aspects concerning the conduct of personnel
member of the Security Institutions - Provincial Police and Service
Provincial Penitentiary - dependent on the Secretary of Security or Organization
that replaces it, detecting and investigating transgressions of rules
administrative, internal or general, criminal or contraventional in force in their
work area. He will act on his own or by order of the Secretary of Security,
who depends directly or an authority that substitutes it, will supervise the
compliance with the applied sanctions; as well as, addressing the aspect
institutional preventive, the full and complete development of the state of discipline and
prestige of the Institution.

ARTICLE 49.- The Directorate of Professional Affairs shall be in charge of the

Legal Area, having to organize the Legal Advice of the Institution to
through its Department of Legal Advice and Police Health, having to
organize everything related to the Police Medical Center and attendance control.

CHAPTER III

Nominations

ARTICLE 50°.- The Chief of Police of the Province shall be exercised by a

General Commissioner in Activity of the Organization, appointed by the Function
Executive with the title of Chief of Police will be based in this Capital city.
and will receive a special allocation determined by the Budget Law for
the charge.
The General Directors will be appointed directly by the Chief of Police.

ARTICLE 51.-The Deputy Police Chief will be held by an Officer.

Superior of the Police of the province of La Rioja in active service, from the hierarchy of
Security and of the highest degree, appointed by the Executive Function and will receive a
special assignment determined by the Budget Law for the position.

ARTICLE 52.- The Position of General Police Defender will be held

by a Senior Police Officer in active service, appointed by the Function
Executive and will receive a special allowance determined by the Law of
Budget for the position.-

CHAPTER IV

REGIONAL UNITS

ARTICLE 53.- The Territory of the Province shall be divided into Regional Units
of Police, in accordance with the Regions recognized in the Constitution
Provincial, namely:
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a) REGIONAL UNIT I: Bermejo Valley Region: Departments

Vinchina, Gral. Lamadrid and Colonel Felipe Varela.

b) REGIONAL UNIT II: Famatina Valley Region: Departments

Famatina and Chilecito.

c) REGIONAL UNIT III: North Region: Departments Arauco, Castro

Barros and San Blas de los Sauces.

d) REGIONAL UNIT IV: Central Region: Departments Capital and

Sanagasta.

UNIT REGIONAL V: Northern Plains Region: Departments

Independence, Ángel V. Peñaloza, Chamical and General Belgrano.

f) REGIONAL UNIT VI: Southern Plains Region: General Juan Departments

Facundo Quiroga, Rosario Vera Peñaloza, General Ortiz de Ocampo and
General San Martín.

ARTICLE 54.- The Regional Police Unit is the Operational Unit that
plan and execute the general and special security police operations
at a technical level and will be in charge of the command and supervision of the Police Stations and
operational units that are created by order of the Executive Function.

ARTICLE 55.- The Heads of Regional Units will be exercised by

Senior Officers in the position of Chief and Deputy Chief of Regional Unit
assisted by the Chiefs of the Police Stations and Smaller Units and Units
Specials that make them up.

ARTICLE 56°.- The operational units with competence in a specific

territorial areas will be called Police Stations. They will constitute the groupings of
line for the total compliance of security operations and when
correspond to the research units.

ARTICLE 57.- The smaller units in terms of the number of personnel.

assigned to perform the same functions, territorial areas and
population will be called Sub-commissariats, Detachments, Guard Posts
or Road Checkpoints, as applicable.

ARTICLE 58.- They shall be called Special Units the groupings

effective characteristics and functions of individuals, uniformed or not.

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TITLE III

GENERAL PROVISIONS

ARTICLE 59.- The rules established by this Organic Law

will be complemented by the special regulations of the mission, organization and
functioning of the different organisms that make up the structure of the
Institution.
All acts must be carried out within three (3) months of being enacted.
Administrative measures necessary to adapt the current structure to the one foreseen in the
present Law.-

ARTICLE 60.- Any rule that opposes this is repealed.

ARTICLE 61.- Communicate, publish, insert in the Official Register and

File it away.

Given in the Session Hall of the Legislature of the Province, in La Rioja, 131º
Legislative Period, fifteen days into the month of December of the year two thousand sixteen.
Project presented by the EXECUTIVE FUNCTION.

LAW No. 9,940.-

SIGNED:

DN. NÉSTOR GABRIEL BOSETTI – PRESIDENT – CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES

Mr. Jorge Raúl Machicote - Legislative Secretary

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