Specially in Somalia´s waters, pirates are increasingly turning to kidnapping and hostage-taking to generate funding to purchase weapons and continue operations. As a comment to a recent statement of the United Nations, the Assistant Secretary Andrew Shapiro at the State Department Bureau of Political-Military Affairs said that there has been a decline of piracy attacks [...]
Bad news for criminals: “Zero tolerance” expert Rudolph Giuliani is now advicer of Keiko Fujimori in Peru. Peru’s presidential front-runner Keiko Fujimori has hired former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as an adviser in public safety, and the former mayor of New York travelled to Lima to see first hand the situation of crime [...]
2011 May 17 | Posted in
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The Internet has become one of the main tools of European organized crime and human trafficking, drugs and money laundering in addition to being a vehicle of cybercrime. According to a new report by the European Police Office, Europol, in the last two years have seen a marked increase of criminal groups who use the [...]
2011 May 07 | Posted in
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Mexico will have a Border Police with tasks such as to prevent illegal entry of weapons, explosives and other substances into the national territory of Mexico by the border areas, mainly the United States. Yesterday, the House of Representatives in Mexico also endorsed that the Border Police are in charge of prosecuting crimes of human [...]
2011 May 01 | Posted in
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The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a full cabinet department of the U.S. federaal government (a sort of a Ministery of Interior) , created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks . The primary responsibilities of the DHS are : a) protecting the territory of the U.S. from terrorist attacks and b) [...]
2011 Feb 27 | Posted in
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The Brazilian Federal Senate this week approved the Bill in order to grant police power to the Army, Navy and Air Force in the border regions, specially with Ciudad del Este and the Three Border Region. The project was approved without any legislative change also in the Chamber of Deputies. After being signed by the [...]
2010 Aug 07 | Posted in
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About 60 police and security officers began on Monday (5th) a training course in order to act in the triple border (Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, Ciudad del Este). The course, coordinated by the Police and held at various places in Foz do Iguacu until Friday (9) is given by five teachers of the Coordinator Office of [...]
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