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Police Clash With Local Private Security
Posted by colinsito | August 3, 2007 | Categories: Community News, Crime & Punishment, Government and Politics |
In today’s La Nacion & and Local Channel 7 news, they covered a meeting that took place in Puerto Viejo with heads of local police, private security and local business representatives from the Puerto Viejo area. Local police officials looked surprised by the presence of media and were very cautious in their responses to local business reprsentatives and media.
It seems that having private security firm help patrolling Puerto Viejo center had very immediate successful results in lowering the crime rate in town. These private security patrols were financed by local businesess and was to work in conjunction with local police.
The success was however shortlived as police officials first stripped security guards of arms, then night sticks and then even made them remove security shirts that identified them after rounding them all up and taking them all to the police station.
Despite clear success of the program, it still remains unclear why local police officials would hamper these efforts, especially since it was made clear by the security minister months ago, that the only way Costa Rica could provide security level needed to protect tourists was in partnership with private security.
Police officials are now supposed to be meeting with local private security to come up with solution to work together. We hope to report the results of that meeting here shortly.
Read the story from La Nación (in Spanish): Hoteleros de Puerto Viejo critican a Fuerza Pública.
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