Guatemala and Honduras

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | October 26th, 2004 | Trackback

These Central American countries are launching similar programs to increase safety on urban buses, having national police and soldiers patrol the transit lines to stop crime and extortion. The Guatemalan effort, which began Oct. 18, has 600 officers boarding buses at different places and times with the authority to check documents of anyone they deem suspicious. An additional campaign using undercover agents will begin in December. In Honduras, soldiers will ride in pairs on randomly-picked buses along their entire routes, while plainclothes police officers will also patrol various bus lines.

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