During a lecture under the XXIX Interdisciplinary Course on Human Rights which concluded on August 19th at the American Institute of Human Rights in Costa Rica, the Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón said that governments foster instability among citizens when politicians elaborate security policies without consulting the people. Garzón called upon the american states to include [...]
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Boston’s Logan International Airport will be the testing ground of a new technology of airport security, aimed at screening passenger behavior. The test will start next Tuesdat. During the new development, officers of the TSA Transportation Security Administration working at the Logan Airport will train screeners on having more conversations with passengers at the security [...]
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The police-reported crime rate, which measures the overall volume of crime, continued its long-term downward trend in 2010, declining 5% from 2009. At the same time, the Crime Severity Index, which measures the severity of crime, fell 6%. The national crime rate has been falling steadily for the past 20 years and is now at its lowest level since 1973. Canadian police [...]
Montevideo, Uruguay.- Household surveys and high school students revealed that young children want to be drug dealers when the role model before for the teenagers was footballers, doctors, firefighters or police officers, informed high ranked officers of the Ministry of Interior in the uruguayan Senate. “I recently took a survey that asked minors (below 18 [...]
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The Center for the Study of Public Finance (CEFP) of the Congress of Mexico, said that due to insecurity, the country’s tourism trade balance fell 20.5 percent during the first quarter of 2011, equivalent to 619.6 million dollars less than last year. In its report “International travelers arriving in Mexico” for the first quarter, the [...]
SAN SALVADOR – The Integration System of Central America (SICA) announced today that Central America has prepared its security plan that will be submitted next June 22nd in Guatemala to all countries and cooperating bodies of the region. The plan was completed in a meeting in San Salvador on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the participation [...]
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“The next great battle America faces is likely to involve cyberwarfare, the next Pearl Habor that we confront could very well be a cyberattack that cripples America’s electrical grid and its security and financial systems” said Mr. Panetta , the CIA Director, who was appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee in a confirmation hearing [...]
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Uruguay seeks to create a genetic database with the DNA of all prison population. The proceeds will not be invasive, just mouth/buccal samples, or from neck, armpit or other body part. In that sense the Constitution and Law Committee of the Senate of Uruguay advances in the treatment of the draft bill to create DNA [...]
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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 [...]
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UN Flag Half Mast due to the death of its four UNODC agents in Bolivia Bolivia, Peru and Colombia are the world’s three largest areas of coca plantations. In Bolivia, a week ago, four UNODC agents were killed while working in coca crop monitoring in that country. The UNODC is the United Nations international office [...]
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