CARACAS, Tuesday May 06, 2008 | Update
Next June, a group of Venezuelan police officers will travel
to Cuba and Nicaragua to be trained in community police matters.
Minister of Interior and Justice Ramón Rodríguez
Chacín stated that they will be making institutional
visits for three months.
"In June, July, and August, institutional visits will be
made to highly experienced police organizations that have
shown great results as community police officers, such as
Cuba and the Revolutionary Police of Nicaragua, which are
successful models," Rodríguez Chacín stated in a
press conference in Nuevo Horizonte slum.
The Organic Law on the Police and National Police Body Service
establishes the creation of community police bodies, "professional,
steady, mainly prevention officers, to promote strategies
and procedures in the community and to work in specific places."
04:20 PM. Western Hemisphere. Colombian President Álvaro Uribe said on Tuesday that governments should ensure citizens' rights to live on the border, in reference to a political and diplomatic crisis with Venezuela and its effects on border residents.