Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has announced a special commission that will investigate ongoing allegations about corruption and illegal activities involving the country's National Police.

"I have decided to launch a high-level and independent commission to investigate the institution of police and to propose ways to improve the entity," the Colombian leader announced on Wednesday, as quoted in a report from teleSUR.

The ongoing corruption investigation implicates the Director of Colombia's National Police, General Rodolfo Palomino, in the illegal surveillance of journalists to cover up an alleged male prostitution ring managed by top police officials, teleSUR reported. During his announcement, Santos said that his administration will not back away from combating corruption in the national police.

High-ranking National Police officials were accused earlier this week after Vicky Davila, a local radio journalist, exposed the scandal, the news outlet wrote. She also revealed that police officials illegally spied on her own personal communications while she was investigating the issue.

According to Davila, the illegal surveillance is being conducted by the DIPOL secret unit of the police intelligence directorate under "the pretext of seeking to protect the peace process," teleSUR noted. Palomino, who is considered as an ally of Santos' administration, has denied all the allegations directed at him.

A colonel at the National Police is also being investigated for his alleged participation at the gay prostitution ring, which is said to have involved hundreds of cadets, Colombia Reports wrote. The investigative commission consists of former Defense Ministers Juan Carlos Esguerra and Luis Fernando Ramirez, and scholar Jorge Hernan Cardenas.

"We will not falter to act against any proven corruption or abuse case we find in the Police or any other public entity," said Santos, vowing that "we will not allow that the indignant behavior of few stain the good name of the institution," as quoted by Colombia Reports.

Colombia's Inspector General announced a disciplinary investigation against the implicated officials following the complaints, the news outlet noted. The accusations have dragged the National Police into one of its largest crisis in recent years.

In past years, a number of major scandals involving Colombia's intelligence agencies have raised concerns and reform in the country and abroad. According to a recent report released by the London-based advocacy group Privacy International, the nation's police and intelligence groups set up "secret and unlawful" surveillance tools and techniques, which permit authorities to access the public's Internet and cellphone date outside of the law, teleSUR added.