Policing
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 - 07:33
To clean up Mexico’s notoriously corrupt local police departments, “confidence tests” were given across the board, and those who failed were supposed to have been dismissed. That hasn’t happened in most states.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 07:06
Colombia’s National Police has sent a commission of high-profile officials to Mexico to help find “El Chapo,” the recently escaped leader of the feared Sinaloa Cartel, newspaper El Tiempo reported on Tuesday.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 07:01
Military police officers in Brazil are critical of their training regimen, in which physical, psychological, and disciplinary abuses committed by their superiors are commonplace.
Thursday, July 16, 2015 - 06:44
President Nicolas Maduro announced the creation of a new special forces unit meant to fight Colombian neo-paramilitary groups operating inside Venezuela, a move which comes off as political posturing.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - 07:31
Angry mobs in Argentina have recently carried out a series of extrajudicial killings, pointing to widespread distrust in the country's official institutions, thanks in part to numerous reports of police corruption.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - 06:33
Six Brazilians a day die at the hands of state security forces - the brutal result of a civil war between police death squads and criminal gangs that is spiraling out of control in the country's troubled cities
Monday, July 13, 2015 - 06:32
Rwanda and Uganda authorities have embarked on joint monitoring of the border to curb crime and end hostilities between the neighbouring communities in Nyakatare and Ntungamo districts.
Friday, July 10, 2015 - 06:24
Police in Uganda have arrested two major challengers to President Yoweri Museveni in the upcoming elections. They are former Premier Amama Mbabazi and Kizza Besigye. They have since been released.
Monday, July 6, 2015 - 05:30
Some 2,000 young, athletic, US-trained Ukrainians on Saturday swore oaths to enforce the law -- and resist the temptation to take bribes -- at the launch of a new police service in Kiev to replace a notoriously corrupt force.
Thursday, July 2, 2015 - 06:36
The U.N. mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUSCO, has called on the government to deploy its police force more widely.