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LatinNews Daily - 02 October 2019
In brief: Costa Rica granted US$100m loan for crime prevention programme
* The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has announced a US$100m loan (which carries a 25-year term, a grace period of 5.5 years and a Libor-based interest rate) to support Costa Rica’s citizen security and violence prevention programme, which will focus on reducing assaults and homicides in 40 high-crime districts. According to the IDB, the loan supports a programme that “will continue to support the modernisation of police infrastructure and expand civic centres to eight new communities…[and] will incorporate improvements in the technological capacity of the preventive police of Costa Rica and the Public Force”. The programme also aims to prevent violence against women and dissuade young people (between the ages of 12 and 17) from taking part in criminal behaviour.
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