They nabbed 27 drug suspects and seized six pounds of cocaine without any trouble from residents
Chile’s Pinera turns from quake to crime-fighting
By Admin Thursday, July 8, 2010SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Riding in a fake funeral procession with a hearse decorated with flower sprays and farewell messages, some 280 police officers slipped into the crowded La Legua slum in plain daylight, a theatrical undercover job that suggests a whole new approach to crime-fighting under Chile’s conservative President Sebastian Pinera.
They nabbed 27 drug suspects and seized six pounds of cocaine without any trouble from residents.
“We stayed there four hours without firing one shot,” Nelson Jofre, police commissioner of southern Santiago, told The Associated Press proudly. Last month’s “Operation Rest in Peace” shows Pinera is willing to go much further than his leftist predecessors in combatting low-level street crime, his aides say...more
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