continued the investigation and on November 24, 1997 it reached a decision on “the juridical situation of the accused” of the crimes of homicide and personal injuries as follows: it ordered preventive detention and issued an arrest warrant against retired major Antonio Alonso Martínez, captain Jaime Alberto Peña Casas and agent Carlos Arturo Oliveros for the homicide of Artemio Pantoja Ordóñez, Hernán Javier Cuarán Muchavisoy, Julio Milciades Cerón Gómez, Wilian Hamilton Cerón Rojas, Edebraes Norverto Cerón Rojas, and N.N./Moisés and for the crime of personal injuries against minor Enio Quinayas Molina, and it abstained from issuing detention measures against the other individuals accused.48 On January 14, 1998 the First Criminal Court Government Attorney 233 asked the Inspector General of the Police, the Trial Court, to refer the file of preliminary proceedings No. 1114 to ordinary criminal justice, for reasons of competence and to comply with the provisions of the August 5, 1998 judgment C-358 of the Constitutional Court.49 In its January 16, 1998 order, that Court accepted the aforementioned request, declared that military criminal justice did not have jurisdiction to hear the proceedings against the policemen, and ordered that the file be forwarded to the Office of the Solicitor General of the Republic for the proceedings to continue under ordinary criminal justice.50 On February 27, 1998 the High Military Court of the Military Forces of Colombia confirmed that decision,51 and on March 25, 1998 the 57th Judge Advocate General of the Military under the Office of the Inspector General of the National Police referred the proceedings to the Solicitor General of the Republic, together with the evidence, the judicial proceedings conducted, detainee captain Jaime Alberto Peña Casas, and the arrest warrants pending.52 n) Ordinary criminal proceedings: on March 30, 1998 the 57th Delegate Public Prosecutor of the Fifth Unit on Crimes Against Life of the Office of the Solicitor General of the Republic undertook the investigation.53 Subsequently, on May 14, 1998 the Regional Public Prosecutor of the National Human Rights Unit undertook the investigative steps and ordered certain evidence to be gathered.54 On December 7, 1999 the National Human Rights Unit decided “the legal situation of the individuals accused” as follows: it decided to continue the preliminary proceedings in accordance with a new provisional classification of the crimes of aggravated kidnapping, aiding aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated homicide with conspiracy, 48 Cf. November 24, 1997 Order of the 51st Military Criminal Magistrates’ Court of the Office of the Inspector General of the National Police. 49 Cf. January 14, 1998 official letter by the 233 Government Attorneys’ Office Judicial I Criminal, of the Office of the Attorney General, to the Office of the Inspector General of the Police, Trial Court, in file No. 426. 50 Cf. January 16, 1998 Order of the Trial Court, Santa Fe de Bogotá Bureau, Office of the Inspector General of the National Police. 51 Cf. February 27, 1998 Order of the High Military Court of the Military Forces of Colombia. 52 Cf. official letter No. 171/INSGE. AUXIN. 57. JUPEM. 789 dated March 25, 1998 sent by the 57th Judge Advocate of the Office of the Inspector General of the National Police to the Office of the Solicitor General of the Republic, Office of the Director of the Public Prosecutors’ Bureau. 53 Cf. March 30, 1998 Order of the 57th Local Prosecutors’ Office of the Fifth Unit on Crimes against Life of the Office of the Solicitor General of the Republic. 54 Cf. May 14, 1998 Order of the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the National Director of Public Prosecutors’ Offices of the Office of the Solicitor General of the Republic.