El derecho a la legítima defensa en el uso progresivo de la fuerza policial.

Abstract

The right to legitimate defense constitutes a guarantee of responding to aggression or the possibility of receiving said aggression. It is the possibility of acting in a way that protects one's own or third party's rights and legal assets. In accordance with the law, this legitimate defense has three causes to be able to get rid of criminal responsibility, since the response to an illegitimate aggression, through the right to mention, can also be illegitimate, with the exception that since it is a legitimate defense, a cause for exemption from criminal conduct is incurred. The police force is a type of public servant, in charge of safeguarding the constitutional security rights of citizens and society. Due to complying with such rights, they may, according to the law, among the grounds to safeguard such rights, act in legitimate defense of personal rights or of citizenship in general. These entities are called to act, however, in Ecuador in recent years, according to the subjectivity of the regulations, which will be analyzed in this work, it lends itself to interpreting in a wrong way and said budget has been reflected in two specific cases analyzed in the research work. The right to legitimate defense, for the purposes of the research work, will be compared in different legislations such as those of Argentina and Chile in contrast to the Ecuadorian regulations, to analyze the different perspectives of such right in the different systems mentioned.