Police to combat corruption with polygraph tests
The Colombian police force will require officers to submit to polygraph tests in a bid to combat links developing between police and members of emerging criminal groups. The planned measure…
The Colombian police force will require officers to submit to polygraph tests in a bid to combat links developing between police and members of emerging criminal groups. The planned measure…
The national police announced Wednesday that they have arrested 127 members of criminal gangs so far in 2010. The latest arrest was Jose Omar Arango Pineda, a member of the…
Police seized an estimated 2 billion pesos (approximately $1 million) hidden in the walls and beneath the bathroom floor in an apartment in northern Bogota, WRadio reported Tuesday. Police raided…
National police director Oscar Naranjo on Monday announced a plan to station a policeman on every four blocks in every city of Colombia. Naranjo told Caracol Radio that he hoped…
Police this weekend seized a total of six and a half tons of pressed marijuana in three separate operations in the western Colombian department of Valle del Cauca, reported Colombian…
A officer of Colombia’s national police is recovering after being bitten repeatedly by a drug dealer in southern Armenia, reported RCN Radio on Monday. The aggressor was found to be…
Three soldiers and four policemen died in north-eastern Colombia on Saturday when they were ambushed by alleged FARC guerrillas. According to media reports, the soldiers and policemen were attacked with…
Police in the eastern Colombian city of Cucuta on Monday arrested a prominent ringleader of the EPL, Colombia’s third largest leftist guerrilla movement. Guerrilla leader Jesus Villalba Torres, alias “Carmelo,”…
Colombia’s Transport Police announced an alarming increase in the number of traffic offenses in the country, reported television channel RCN on Monday. In January alone over 100,000 drivers have already been…