During this week, VEJA.com (website of brazilian Veja magazine) published a series on one of the problems that most afflict the Brazilian and it certainly will weigh in choosing the next president: public safety and crime. In order to address that situation , here are the main proposals of the leading candidates for the elections.
All [...]
A judge in Peru granted freedom to a drug dealer and then went to drink beer with him in a bar in the northeastern city of Chachapoyas, where he was caught “in fraganti” by judicial authorities, according to a video released Wednesday in Lima.
Judge Edgar Víctor Quispe Gomez, criminal judge of Chachapoyas, about 790 kilometers north of [...]
2010 Aug 07 | Posted in
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In a recent visit to the region, the Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton stated that “the U.S. is committed to citizen safety in Central America…We are doing everything we can in the fight against corruption and impunity, in providing the equipment and the support that law enforcement and the military require, and helping to [...]
2010 Aug 07 | Posted in
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Mexican authorities arrested four prison workers in the northern state of Durango for allegedly letting prisoners out of their cells to commit crimes, the attorney general’s office said in a statement.
The former director of the jail in the city of Gomez Palacio was among the detained, the statement said.
In northern Torreon, Coahuila state, some of [...]
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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 [...]
2010 Jul 11 | Posted in
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DRUGS,
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Illegal Drugs Trafficking,
Money Laundering,
Mutual Legal Assistance,
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SANTO DOMINGO – Police chiefs of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean agreed in Santo Domingo to increase the number of officers seconded to the Interpol and to improve the mechanisms for exchanging information/intelligence to combat organized crime.
“This will achieve a more secure region of prosperity and development”, said on Friday [...]
2010 Jun 28 | Posted in
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New Jersey is a city of 65,000 (East Orange County) has fought with success one of the nation’s highest crime rates in recent years using an arsenal of high-tech gadgets, from gunshot detection systems to software that can sift and analyze crime data almost instantaneously.
The results have been startling: Violent crime in East Orange has [...]
“The main drug kingpin of the criminal serbian group Saric has not been yet arrested, that may mean that he has been here,” said yesterday the Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, after meeting with Uruguayan Interior Minister Eduardo Bonomi.
The two Secretaries of State agreed to sign a memorandum of cooperation between [...]
2010 Jun 13 | Posted in
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Juarez, a city of 1.3 million hugging the border with El Paso, Tex., may now be the most dangerous place in the world — riskier even than Baghdad or Kandahar. This isn’t the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, or Cité Soleil in Port-au-Prince, pockets of danger in a larger whole. In [...]
2010 May 21 | Posted in
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Illegal Drugs Trafficking,
Mexico,
Migration Smuggling,
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