Bogota’s city council angrily suspended a debate on the city’s “failed” public security policy on Wednesday after the chief of police announced he would not be assisting in the debate.
Alleged rebels of the ELN, Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group, have killed two policemen in an attack in the southwest of the country.
Thieves have stolen up to 30 weapons from a police station armory in Colombia’s capital Bogota.
As if ongoing revelations of police corruption wasn’t enough, Colombia’s defense minister announced this week to investigate the unpopular institution for possible infiltration by the FARC, the country’s largest rebel group.
Nineteen police officers were arrested in mass roundup of drug traffickers in Medellin this week.
The number of Colombian policeman arrested in an offensive against corruption in the force has risen to 25, local media reported.
At least 15 police officers have been detained on suspicion of corruption, the director of Colombia’s National Police told press on Tuesday.
Colombian police and emergency teams successfully recovered 53 high school students on Sunday who had been trapped in a flooding cave in the northern state of Santander, according to local media reports.
President Juan Manuel Santos announced emergency plan on Tuesday to combat extortion offenses, trafficking, illegal mining, theft, smuggling and murder in 11 of Colombia´s main cities.