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Rio Public Prosecutors work to equip police

Police cars — among much else– fundamental to public safety We’ve seen many reports in recent months about the horrendous state of Rio police cars, a topic dating back at least to the 2007 Elite Squad movie. Despite the attention, … Continue reading

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Rio police demonstrate

On both sides of the field: preparedness is tantamount Rio’s Batalhão de Choque, the crowd control division of the state military police, today showed members of the foreign press an example of their daily training exercises, as Rio approaches the June-July … Continue reading

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Reckless Rio: in the air, on the ground and even under the earth

Civil Police hunted down a cold-blooded drug trafficker  as if they were flying over a jungle, instead of a densely populated favela [UPDATE] Civil Police Chief Martha Rocha said Monday morning  (May 13) that there is no protocol for collecting, monitoring … Continue reading

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Police training: revolution in the ranks, and above

Why not go all the way? Last week, O Globo newspaper reported that the landfill leachate from the state-of-the-art sanitary landfill in Seropédica, which finally permitted the closure of the Gramacho landfill (immortalized in artist Vik Muniz’s film Wasteland), is … Continue reading

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Lunch with Rio’s security chief: out his window

Drug traffickers aren’t organized, says Beltrame; the police are getting more so Behind a long table at the front of the Rio state public safety secretariat’s auditorium hangs an enormous black and white picture of a train rushing down a … Continue reading

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