Jean Marie Marcelin Gilibert

[1] After the war, Gilibert travelled with his regiment to Constantinople, where he was appointed a police commissioner of the 5th class.

On 1 January 1892 he presented the new Bogota police service, consisting of 450 officers organised in six districts, to President Carlos Holguin and his ministers in a parade.

Anger towards the police force caused by its professionalisation and its crackdown on street crime and prostitution, as well as Gilibert's alienation from the local populace and recruitment of officers from outside the city is thought to have contributed to the breakout of rioting.

In 1898 Gilibert tended his resignation from the directorate of the Bogota police, claiming that his resources were insufficient for his task.

He later reassumed the directorate under the government of General Rafael Reyes and continued to serve as an advisor until his death on 11 September 1923.