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Security & Strategic Review October 2009 (ISSN 1741-4202)
EL SALVADOR: Funes may devote 6,500 more troops to policing
In just under a month President Mauricio
Funes has shifted from envisaging the deployment of a few hundred more troops
alongside the police [SSR-09-09] to increasing their numbers more than fourfold.
This decision came only days after figures released by the police showed that
the number of homicides, after a significant decline over the past couple of
years, had risen again in 2009, and shortly before an opinion survey showed a
sharp increase in the public's fear of becoming victims of
crime.
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