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ARMS TRAFFICKING / 13 DEC 2011

Police in Rio de Janeiro arrested 16 people, including 11 military police, accused of selling confiscated firearms to criminal groups.

HONDURAS / 8 DEC 2011

Former Honduran Security Minister Alfredo Landaverde, an outspoken critic of police corruption and the influence of organized crime on politics, has been gunned down in Tegucigalpa.

HONDURAS / 1 DEC 2011

Honduras has granted policing powers to its military, a controversial move which could damage rule of law in the country, where the armed forces already have a tendency to overreach…

BRAZIL / 28 NOV 2011

A new study indicates that the number of homicides in Rio de Janeiro favelas that have been "pacified" by elite police units has fallen by 50 percent in less than…

EL SALVADOR / 21 NOV 2011

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.

MEXICO / 17 NOV 2011

Mexico’s 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.

COLOMBIA / 15 NOV 2011

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…

HONDURAS / 11 NOV 2011

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.

MEXICO / 3 NOV 2011

A dispute between President Felipe Calderon and Mexico's governors over the pace of the vetting of state police forces reflects the nation’s difficulties in carrying out effective, lasting police…

ARMS TRAFFICKING / 31 OCT 2011

Hundreds of weapons and a large stockpile of ammunition have disappeared from a police warehouse in Honduras, according a report by El Heraldo.

MEXICO / 20 OCT 2011

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.

GULF CARTEL / 20 OCT 2011

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…

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