Former Cartagena police inspector to answer to attorney general’s office for noncompliance in property demolition

There Office of the Attorney General of the Nation reports on Tuesday February 21, 2023 to have presented a report against the former police inspector No, 1 Cartagena Lisardo Del Rio Gonzalezwho held the position from 2018 to 2020.

This is because, apparently, Lisardo Gonzalez failed to inform his superior, in an adequate manner, of the breach of the deadline granted to the constructor for demolish a part of Hotel Oz Luxurysince it did not comply with what was authorized in the building permit.

For its part, the Cartagena Provincial Instruction Office He is investigating because, apparently, he did not alert the city’s interior secretariat to this situation, so that the relevant actions can be taken from this office to enforce this measure.

Likewise, the control body clarified that, although the official at the time sent a communication in which he indicated that the property did not benefit from the building permitthis report did not include annexes or other explanations of the non-compliance with the demolition order.

“In the firm’s opinion, what purports to be a report by the subject of the investigation is materially deficient and ineffective, generating a breach of duty and omission of a position-specific matter, which sets up a ban for the official,” the office said. Attorney General’s Office in the statement.

For these facts, Lisardo Del Rio Gonzalez it would have violated the principles of morality, efficiency and celerity of the administrative function; In addition, the regulatory body called his alleged behavior a “serious offense committed with very serious negligence”.

It should be noted that the first administrative judge of the circuit Cartagena ordered, on January 9, 2023, to the mayor of the city and to the police inspector of Bocagrande to carry out the necessary works to adapt the building, where the Hotel Oz Luxurythe Territorial Development Plan (POT) and the building permit granted.

This happened when, during the resolution of a popular action instituted a few years ago by the Attorney 26 Judicial II for Administrative Affairs of the Capital of the Department of Bolívar, the judge indicated that within the next three months the public space invaded by the elements constructed in the front garden of the building should be recovered.

In this way, the official pointed out that the violation of collective rights related to the enjoyment of public space was clear, due to the fact that the areas reserved for the front yard in the Hotel Oz Luxury they were part of the neighborhood’s public space.

“These spaces of public space are invaded by built elements (pergolas) that exceed the limit set by urban regulations, insofar as they occupy more than 50% of the surface, which is not authorized in the POT,” the judge said. .

In addition, he added that the right to carry out constructions, buildings and urban developments was violated in the same way, in compliance with the legal provisions, in an orderly manner and favoring the benefit of the quality of life of the inhabitants, since they were executed without complying with the rules established in the JAR and in flagrant violation of what was approved in the granted urban planning permits.

Likewise, he pointed out that in this case it is obvious that the failure of the District to Cartagena in its duty to ensure the protection of public space and for compliance with the town planning regulations contained in the JARas well as in the control and supervision of the construction of the building, responsibility, the latter, shared with the Bocagrande Police Inspectorate.