Weekly Report - 03 November 2011 (WR-11-44)

As far as timing goes it could hardly have been any worse for Honduran President Porfirio Lobo. The day before his much-trumpeted launch of a joint public security initiative involving the police and army codenamed ‘Operation Lightning Strike’, Lobo was compelled to shake-up the police hierarchy. Why? Four police officers accused of murdering two students had been released from custody and promptly fled. The episode further erodes confidence in the police as an institution, to the extent that the proposal of putting more police officers on the streets far from allaying public fears could augment them.

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