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Security & Strategic Review - September 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
HONDURAS: Homicide rates still falling
The government of President Juan Orlando Hernández has been celebrating a further decline in the number of homicides this year, which Hernández attributes to the improvement in the professionalisation of the police forces, where as recently as 2008 most officers had only three months of training. He is now spreading the reach of his new creation, the Policía Militar del Orden Público (PMOP) to all of the country’s 18 departments.
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- HONDURAS: Homicide rates still falling
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