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Security & Strategic Review - August 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
HONDURAS: ‘Remilitarising’ the police function
Over the last three months the government of President Porfirio Lobo has announced the creation of three new police forces, billed as the means to achieving a ‘rapid reduction’ in the level of criminal violence that has given Honduras the highest murder rate in the world. The plan is to start fielding them in September, less than two months before the presidential elections and less than four before the end of Lobos’s term of office. Together with a new legal framework that redefines terrorism and human rights violations, this package has been widely seen as a further ‘militarisation’ of police functions.
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