Progressive use of force and its contrast with the crime of exceeding the limits in the execution of an act of the service.

Abstract

This investigation is based on determining whether the Ecuadorian State has found a way to provide the necessary support, and in a reliable way, to law enforcement officers to establish a difference between the correct progressive use of force, in each event in which they intervene, detecting if they are prepared to be able to reach an effective execution of the acts of service for which they are called to protect public safety. Since, despite having regulations in Ecuadorian legislation for its correct application, there are precedent events in which there are police officers involved in criminal proceedings for having incurred in the crime of overreach in the execution of an act of service. For which, in this work we will be able to make an extensive study on the progressive use of force and on the need of the Ecuadorian state to protect citizen security.