All About Police Reform

CARIBBEAN / 13 OCT 2011

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.

PERU / 13 OCT 2011

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.

EL SALVADOR / 13 OCT 2011

In the first eight months of this year, 232 members of El Salvador’s National Police were arrested on suspicion of participating in a variety of crimes, including murder, extortion, and…

MEXICO / 11 OCT 2011

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…

PERU / 10 OCT 2011

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.

MEXICO / 10 OCT 2011

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.

ECUADOR / 6 OCT 2011

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 / 5 OCT 2011

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…

JUAREZ CARTEL / 3 OCT 2011

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.

MEXICO / 29 SEP 2011

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.

MEXICO / 29 SEP 2011

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…

BRAZIL / 27 SEP 2011

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.

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