Security & Strategic Review - August 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)

BRAZIL | Rio police chief replaced. When the chief of Rio de Janeiro state’s military police, Colonel Eric Ribeiro da Costa Filho, announced that he was granting an amnesty to 450 officers in his force who had been found guilty of  rule infractions ‘of lesser offensive potential’ since 2011, there was uproar in a city still shaken, not only by the excesses committed by the military police in the repression of demonstrations during June but also by the widely reported ‘Amarildo case’ — the disappearance of Amarildo de Souza, a bricklayer from the Rocinha favela who was last seen being taken away from his home on 14 July by officers of the local police pacification unit (UPP).