Office of the Attorney General of Colombia

Not to be confused with Office of the Inspector General of Colombia.
Office of the Attorney General
Fiscalía General de la Nación
Agency overview
FormedJuly 6, 1991 (1991-07-06)
HeadquartersDiagonal 22B 52-01
(Ciudad Salitre),
Bogotá, Colombia
Annual budgetCOP$1,437,526,644,588
(est. 2010)[1]
Agency executive
Child agency
Websitewww.fiscalia.gov.co

The Office of the Attorney General of Colombia (Spanish: Fiscalía General de la Nación; literally "General Prosecutorial Office of the Nation") is the Colombian institution part of the Colombian judicial branch of Government with administrative autonomy designed to prosecute offenders, investigate crimes, review judicial processes and accuse penal law infractions against judges and courts of justice.[2] The Office of the Attorney General was created by the Colombian Constitution of 1991 and began operating on July 1, 1992.

An investigative process is initiated either by the institutions' own initiative or after a denouncer has made authorities aware of the case in a police station or in a Quick Reaction Unit of the Attorney General's Office.

  1. ^ Ley de Presupuesto General de la Nación 2010 (PDF), Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, 2010, pp. 50–51, retrieved 2010-11-23
  2. ^ "Identidad Corporativa" (in Spanish). Office of the Attorney General of Colombia. Retrieved 2008-11-29.