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Security & Strategic Review: January 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)
BRAZIL: Forty Rio favelas targeted for 'pacification
The government of Rio de Janeiro state has
announced plans to apply the experience of the Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora
(UPP), which last year proved successful in seven favelas [SSR-09-07], to a
further 40 favelas this year. This consists of establishing permanent police
presence in the slum districts, after sending in 'shock' contingents of military
police to deal with the entrenched and highly armed drug
gangs.
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