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Weekly Report - 13 November 2014 (WR-14-45)
VENEZUELA: Municipal police forces under scrutiny
Few new authorities have got off to such a rapid start as the new presidential commission on police reform, launched barely a fortnight ago (on 31 October) by President Nicolás Maduro in the wake of two fatal incidents in Caracas that appear to have got the government rattled about police corruption. Deputy Freddy Bernal, of the ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), the head of the new commission, this week ordered the intervention of three municipal forces - notably including Policaracas in the PSUV-run central Caracas municipality of Libertador - and the suspension of two others.
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