Homicides Increase 116 Percent in Niterói From Last Year
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Recent data from the Instituto de Segurança Pública (ISP), shows an increase in crime rates in Rio’s neighboring city of...
View ArticleRio Trains Police With English Language Classes: Daily
By William Jones, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As Brazil and Rio prepares to host some of the world’s biggest sporting events the state’s police are preparing for the influx of...
View ArticleRio’s Police to Receive 11% Pay Raises in 2014
By Benjamin Parkin, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Security personnel in Rio de Janeiro will receive an 11.18 percent pay raise this month, according to the Rio state authorities. The...
View ArticlePetrobras Probed Over Bribery Claims: Daily
By William Jones, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras is under investigation by the country’s federal police after claims that the oil giant...
View ArticleDemonstrators Clash in Rio and São Paulo: Daily
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – While marking the 50th anniversary of the events known as the Marcha da Família com Deus pela Liberdade (March of the Family...
View ArticlePolice and Favela Oi Occupants Clash: Daily
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Clashes continue in Rio’s Zona Norte (North Zone) today, Friday, April 11th, following the Military Police’s repossession of the...
View ArticleArmy to Stay in Bahia After Police Strike Ends
By Patrick Eccles-Williams, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Following a police strike last week in the Bahian capital of Salvador, the leader of the police and firefighters union...
View ArticleSecurity Forces Increase in Rio de Janeiro for World Cup
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The state of Rio de Janeiro further reinforced its security force for the 2014 World Cup games last week on Friday, June 6th,...
View ArticleSix Military Police Arrested After UPP Operation
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Early on Sunday, July 27th, Rio de Janeiro civil police arrested six military police officers under suspicion of falsifying acts...
View ArticleSecurity Increases for Elections in Rio de Janeiro
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Due to a rise in tension and number of disputes during election time in Brazil, Military Police are reinforcing security as part...
View ArticleNew Year’s Eve to Have 33% More Police in Copacabana
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – This year the security for New Year’s Eve celebrations around the state of Rio de Janeiro will be increased 25 percent according to...
View ArticleRio’s Military Police Enter Favela After Weekend Shootings
By Lisa Flueckiger, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – After intense shootings during the past weekend between two reported rival drug gangs in the Morro do Juramento favela in Rio’s Zona...
View ArticleRio’s Final UPP Bases to Be Constructed with Urgency
By Lisa Flueckiger, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Rio de Janeiro Governor Luiz Fernando Pezão has announced that the final bases for the city’s new Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) will...
View ArticleFewer Military Policemen to Patrol Rio’s Streets
By Lisa Flueckiger, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Despite an increase in robberies and shootings in Rio de Janeiro, the Military Police had to cut the number of policemen...
View ArticleRio’s Floresta Tijuca National Park to Have Increased Policing
By Lisa Flueckiger, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Hikers and mountain bikers will now receive increased military police presence when practicing their sports in Rio’s Floresta...
View ArticleTraining for New Military Police to Increase in Rio de Janeiro
By Lisa Flueckiger, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Rio de Janeiro’s Military Police say they have decided to increase the training for its new members to twelve months total,...
View ArticleBOPE Headquarters Searched and Officers Investigated in Rio
By Jaye Forte, Contributing Reporters RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – It was reported yesterday that the Magistrate of the Military Police (PM) called for a search of the Special Operations Battalion (BOPE)...
View ArticleMore Than 2,300 Deaths Recorded by Police in Brazil in 2014
By Lisa Flueckiger, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In 2014, on average six people died each day in Brazil through involvement of the military police, totaling in 2,368 deaths in...
View ArticleRio de Janeiro Police Adopt Social Media to Help Combat Crime
By Nelson Belen, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The use of social media has emerged as a vital tool in Rio de Janeiro’s security efforts against crime as well as a public relations tool...
View ArticleMega-Operation Underway to Capture Fugitive in Rio
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The mega-operation by Rio de Janeiro police to capture Nicolas Labre Pereira has already left nine people dead since June 20th, when in a...
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