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Security & Strategic Review November 2008 (ISSN 1741-4202)
COSTA RICA: Misdeeds in police & intelligence under scrutiny
November was a bad month for Costa Rica's law-enforcement and
intelligence establishment. First, the public heard that the number of police
officers investigated so far this year for illegal activities was twice as high
as in the whole of 2007. Then came the news that a top intelligence official and
eight of his staffers had been accused of running a cheque fraud racket from
their headquarters.
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