Incumplimiento de la cadena de custodia en los procesos penales en el Cantón La Troncal

Abstract

This study is about the “inobservance of the chain of custody in the penal process of law, in “La Troncal County”” the purpose of the research frames two main objectives: 1)

to

instruct the Police

department and the district Attorney`s office

personnel

with practical

knowledge

about the “chain of custody” so it can be applied to make the constitutional, legal and penal norms in the penal process law to prevail. 2).- identify the lawfulness of the “chain of custody” and the need for the district attorney’s office and police department personnel to know which the outlines are to make it be useful within a penal process of law. In order to verify if the present work objectives meet the arisen hypothesis, an inquiry addressed to fifteen people among district attorney`s office personnel , judges, independent attorneys an police officers in “La Troncal” County has been carried out. Data was collected an analyzed in statistic charts. The results revealed that “the chain of custody” has been long overlooked nor has been taken into account as important by most of the enquired people, due to the lack of information and coercive action against the inobservance of this rule, therefore it is necessary to implement reforms to make “the chain of custody” useful within a penal process of law.