Authorities in El Salvador say they are pushing through with a police clean-up which has seen hundreds of officers sanctioned or removed from duty.
Mexicos attorney general announced that by December, 1,500 officers will have been removed from the Federal Agency of Investigation, the country's equivalent of the FBI.
Ex-police in two of the most troubled Colombian provinces have allegedly moved up the criminal ladder, shifting from tacitly supporting criminal groups to becoming players in the underworld in…
Former Honduran Security Minister Oscar Alvarez, who left office abruptly in September, has denied allegations of corruption and accusations that elements in his office colluded with organized crime.
A dispute between President Felipe Calderon and Mexico's governors over the pace of the vetting of state police forces reflects the nations difficulties in carrying out effective, lasting police…
Hundreds of weapons and a large stockpile of ammunition have disappeared from a police warehouse in Honduras, according a report by El Heraldo.
Authorities in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, Mexico, announced that 980 state police have been dismissed in the last two weeks after failing tests designed to detect corruption.
Letras Libras reports from the streets of Monterrey, a north Mexican city bloodied by disputes between the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, where police are in desperately short supply…
Puerto Rican officials have dismissed a U.S. report alleging systemic corruption in their police force, in a discouraging sign for the prospects of police reform in the U.S. territory.
President Ollanta Humala's government continues its purge of Peru's police force, annoucing that some 3,500 officers will be removed over the next two years.
In the first eight months of this year, 232 members of El Salvadors National Police were arrested on suspicion of participating in a variety of crimes, including murder, extortion, and…
State authorities detained more than 100 municipal police officers and cadets suspected of corruption and links to organized crime in a single town in the north Mexico state of Nuevo…
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