The present research aimed to verify the transition from national security to citizen security in Colombia during the period 1991 - 2013, by means of identification and characterization of the references included in the principal governmental policies of national order, to elaborate the suggestions of public policies concerning to citizen security. According to Pierre Muller theoretical approach, a number of relevant types of documents were reviewed in order to find propositions and categories that reveal the reference period issued by presidential government, subsequently, latter were analyzed and characterized by quantifying qualitative information to expand certain inferences. In the process it was found that the definition of security policies has closely depended on the perception an actor or mediator considers a “risk, problem, or main threat”. The reference of security has been built or deconstructed, depending on the case, according to a supranational global reference that responds to national security logics, widely spread throughout different governments. Although, between 1991 and 2013 the citizen security agenda was included in the national and subnational state order work (paradoxically to a greater extent in the cities than in a national level), definitely it was a gradual and progressive coming that does not correspond to an absolute and unequivocal change of values that can make possible an undeniable step from national security to citizen security in the country.