The criminalist investigations body in the context of securitarian campaigns in Venezuela.

Should securitarian logic guide legislative reforms that affect the body for criminalist investigations? Should it also affect the leadership that the Public Ministry exercises over criminal investigation? Should the body for investigations be considered as just another police force? Or, on the contrary, does it have its own characteristics that distinguish it from the police institution? Should penal investigation be understood as part of the police service or as a phase in the penal process? Important political decisions depend on the approach adopted to respond to these questions and the conceptual precision of the different terms used in these areas, which can contribute to constructing the Social State of Law and Justice consecrated in the Constitution; or on the other hand, it can also help to strengthen the Police State that underlies all States of Law in a latent manner. In this work,
some reflections are attempted from the Venezuelan context, analyzing critically the recent legislation that has introduced modifications in these matters.