The National Police of Colombia is developing its statistic “Police conducts and services” operation in order to have inputs allowing for the formulation of public policies dealing with security and permanent follow-up of the police service impact. This operation uses as a technological tool the statistics, criminal, contravention and operative information system known as the “Sistema de Informacion Estadistico, Delincuencial, Contravencional y Operativo - Siedco. The methodology for the collection, filing, register, consolidation and dissemination of administrative records for statistical purposes helps obtain criminal figures according to the criminal types of the Colombian Criminal Code, crimes of greater impact and operative activity, with the possibility of locating them by political or police jurisdiction. On the other hand, current technological software tools for the gathering of information offer diff erent ways to analyze and study data at each police unit, in a shorter period of time.

Crimes occurring in Colombia are usually known in the first place by the National Police throughout the country's territory. Therefore, administrative records serving to get information concerning criminality in the country are organized into the Statistical Criminal Contraventional and Operating Information System (SIEDCO) and, from there, criminological analyses and statistical reports used as an input to construe crime changes in the temporal and territorial environment are prepared. This article exposes the description of offenses by titles and criminological groupings within the period between 1st of January and 31st December 2015, and data are compared with those of the previous year. Likewise, National Police operational outcomes in their fight against criminality are described as well as the contraventions applied to citizens in accordance with the Police Code in force for the country. In addition, it includes an analysis of the crime of homicide since it is seen as one of the most serious manifestations of violence in any given society. Among the most important conclusions, the following findings have been identified: the change taking place in crime dynamics, variances towards offenses affecting citizen safety and security, and a decline in homicidal violence.

Driving while intoxicated is causing serious damages to the physical integrity of drivers, passengers and third parties involved in traffic accidents. This occurrence demands the timely action of the relevant authorities, and in December 2013 the Colombian State issued Act (“Ley”) 1696 whereby criminal and administrative provisions designed to impose both criminal and administrative penalties aimed at sanctioning individuals found driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs or other psychoactive substances were issued, including the development of measures of preventive and controlling nature, and making the pursuit of offenders easier. The partial impact of this rule was examined during the first 2010-2013 and 2014 bi-annual periods, taking time-place- and mode variables into account, as seen and described from the control theory and relevant researches. A non-experimental investigation was developed by means of a quantitative study of descriptive nature. Data were obtained by Colombian National Police statistical databases. The results show that the implementation of Act (“Ley”) 1696 did not change the frequency in any of the three variables so observed vis-à-vis accidents caused by drink-driving offenders, and it is has been concluded that the simple increase of punitive measures is not sufficient to reduce this kind of behavior.