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Weekly Report - 24 October 2013 (WR-13-42)
HONDURAS: Poor results, so more troops and police
The troops deployed in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula next to the national police have already been joined by members of the new military police force, drawn from the army, and will soon have at their disposal a new rapid-response unit. More than a year of military involvement in policing does not seem to have made much of a difference to the level of violence across the country, which has kept Honduras at the top of the region’s homicide table, way above all others.
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