President Ollanta Humala selected a little-known Lima police chief to head Peru's National Police, amid a wave of shake-ups of the country's security forces.
The number of Federal Police in Mexico who quit the force tripled in a two-year period, according to the national freedom of information agency.
Faced with surging crime and corrupt police forces, many Latin American governments are turning to their militaries to combat citizen insecurity, but the peacetime deployment of the armed forces is…
Brazil's program of sending special police units to take Rio de Janeiro's favelas out of the hands of criminal gangs has been widely praised, but now finds itself at a…
As federal police withdraw from the troubled Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, a newly-published report paints an alarming picture of the municipal police force as underequipped and overburdened.
Two men described as trusted associates of Ciudad Juarez police chief Julian Leyzaola were shot dead in the Mexican border city in separate incidents within a 12 hour period.
Some analysts point to higher salaries as a way to reduce corruption among Mexico's police, but such an approach is only one part of the reforms needed to make law…
A commander in Rio de Janeiro's Military Police has been arrested on suspicion of masterminding the murder of Judge Patricia Acioli, who was gunned down in August.
Rio de Janeiro police struck a blow against the Justice League, a militia led by jailed ex-politicians, arresting five people, including three former military police officers.
The assassination of a Rio de Janeiro criminal judge, known for handling cases against the city's powerful urban militias, has called attention to the threats facing judicial authorities across Brazil.
With some of Rio de Janeiro's most crime-ridden favelas under police occupation, the next step is to build solid institutions to make sure the progress sticks, explains Rio-based blogger Julia…
Thousands of Federal Police who have overseen security in Mexico's most violent city for the past year are set to withdraw in the coming months -- but whether Ciudad…
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