Colombian National Police: On the Road to Hyperspecialization

The main objective of this article is to analyze the possible existence of Hyperspecialization in the Colombian National Police, through its organic structure and functional capacity, which would suffer from a slowdown in its autogenesis, by not modifying its way of acting against the fact of privileging various specialties of the service that respond to criminal acts and not to the realities of the police service in Colombia; A methodology was used from a descriptive cross-sectional quantitative approach, where a questionnaire approved and validated by scientific experts in doctorate from the experience in Hyperspecialization was applied as an instrument; the population for the study was made up of 1, 200 police officers in different categories, who are in the different police academies: Simon Bolívar in the city of Tuluá (Valle del Cauca), Carlos Eugenio Restrepo in the municipality of la Estrella (Antioquia) and Eduardo Cuevas in Villavicencio city, headquarters of the IES National Directorate of Academies, police university in Colombia. Generating as a result that 77.33 % of the sample affirm that the Hyperspecialization of the national police occurs in order to best combat crime through a more specialized service.