Police officers killed in ELN ambush
ELN guerrillas murdered three police officers in the Casanare department in eastern Colombia Sunday, according to local media. Police assigned to the area were providing protection for an oil company…
ELN guerrillas murdered three police officers in the Casanare department in eastern Colombia Sunday, according to local media. Police assigned to the area were providing protection for an oil company…
Local authorities in the central department of Antioquia warned that a batch of defective, counterfeit condoms have reached the market, reported Caracol radio Monday. The police said they seized 2,000…
U.S. prosecutors are set to indict three more Colombian police officials for drug trafficking, newspaper El Tiempo reported Sunday. According to the newspaper, the recent charges against retired police general…
Bogota will add 3,500 officers to its police force in order to reduce crime in the city, government officials announced Friday. Drawn from police academies throughout the country, the new…
Police have seized a shipment of marijuana valued at $225,000 in central Colombia, Radio Caracol reported Wednesday. The drugs were apparently concealed in a load of pumpkins on a service…
Colombia’s former police chief will act as security advisor to the frontrunner in Mexico’s presidential election, local media reported Friday. Oscar Naranjo, 55, who was involved in the capture of…
Colombia’s new national police chief, General Jose Roberto Leon Riaño, declared war on urban crime Tuesday. During his inauguration as Colombia’s highest police official, Riaño said that crimes that “affect…
Colombian outgoing police chief Oscar Naranjo announced Tuesday that he will become external security adviser for the Inter-American Development Bank. Naranjo said he will be working from the United States…
FARC has released several photos of police officers involved in the 2008 operation that killed FARC commander Raul Reyes, the first ruling member of Colombia’s largest guerilla group to be…