The dichotomy of the Colombian disciplinary procedure system

This document intends to suggest a change in the procedural system that governs and regulates the disciplinary sanctioning law of public servants in Colombia, such suggestion is intended to be achieved by first addressing a brief explanation of the origin of the sanctioning law or ius puniendi, its main substantive elements and regulatory principles, to then establish the undeniable relationship that exists between the procedural system at the time of applying the disciplinary sanctioning law and the criminal sanctioning law for public servants. In this way it will be possible to establish the notorious difference that currently exists between the same sanctioning law, that is, the simultaneous survival of the system that the doctrine has called inquisitorial, which regulates all disciplinary actions and the accusatory system that predominates in the criminal process.