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Security & Strategic Review - July 2005
VENEZUELA: Behind police purges, a bid to centralise control
Public outrage over police violence is providing added momentum for the Chávez government's bid to impose greater central control over policing countrywide, which in Venezuela's federal system is largely in the hands of the governments of the states and city authorities. Chief prosecutor Isaías Rodríguez has already been hard at work 'softening up' legislators for the impending consideration of a new national police law, likely to irk zealous defenders of state autonomy.
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