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Honduras names new national police chief amid controversy overjournalist's death, abuses by wwy yrj
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Honduras names new national police chief amid controversy overjournalist's death, abuses by WWY YRJ
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – The newest top cop who President Porfirio Lobo is giving theresponsibility of cleaning up the national police force has facedquestions in the past about his record on human rights. Lobo swore in Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, a veteran lawenforcement official known as "El Tigre" or "The Tiger," lateMonday to replace Ricardo Ramirez del Cid, who held the job forlittle more than six months. Assistant Communications Minister Mario Mejia Alas said that hedidn't know the reason for the change and that Security MinisterPompeyo Bonilla praised Ramirez's performance in announcing hisreplacement Tuesday. The national police chief position has become a revolving doorunder recurring allegations of police officers being involved indrug trafficking, murder and kidnapping in this small CentralAmerican country, which has one of the world's highest murderrates.
Drug trafficking has spiked in recent years in remote,lightly patrolled regions along the Caribbean, where planeloads ofcocaine from South America land on clandestine airstrips. Ramirez was appointed in November during a scandal over allegedpolice involvement in the murder of the son of Honduras NationalAutonomous University President Julieta Castellanos. His replacement by Bonilla comes amid current controversy overpossible police involvement in the May 9 kidnapping and murder ofone of Honduras' best-known journalists, Alfredo Villatoro, a closeadviser to Lobo. Villatoro's body was found six days after he wasabducted.
Bonilla promised to try to improve the public's confidence in thepolice. "We will take immediate actions," he told reporters Tuesday. "Thereis a plan in place; we just have to follow it." A 2007 U.S. State Department report on human rights said Bonillawas suspected but never charged in a series of killings when he wasthe nation's jails inspector. Bonilla, an assistant chief beforehis promotion, couldn't be reached for comment on the StateDepartment report.
The country of 8 million people is also reeling from a fatalshooting by an anti-drug police helicopter attack that killedinnocent riverboat passengers May during a U.S.-backed missiontracking a cocaine shipment in Honduras' northern region that ishome to the Miskito Indians. The police, who were operating in U.S.helicopters with DEA advisers on board, said they were shot atfirst and their return fire killed four civilians and wounded fourothers. Honduran police units working with the U.S. Drug EnforcementAdministration were specially vetted, the State Department said.
The U.S. can withhold foreign assistance to countries if there isthere is evidence of gross human rights violations by police orsecurity forces. No such aid is being withheld from Honduras, StateDepartment spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Tuesday. Former Security Minister Oscar Alvarez called the national police"air traffic controllers" for the drug traffickers before heresigned last fall and said he tried to clean up the force butdidn't have support. He has since left the country.
___ Associated Press writers Matthew Lee in Washington and MarthaMendoza in Santa Cruz, California, contributed to this report. I am Security & Protection writer, reports some information about admiral security services , access control ppt.
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