Brazil - Cops to take over slum
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It will take 1,500 officers to secure a drug-infested slum near Rio de Janeiro’s international airport ahead of major sports events to be hosted by Brazil, a police chief said on Wednesday.
The planned operation is part of a drive launched in 2008 by state authorities to wrest control of shantytowns from drug gangs before the start of next year’s World Cup and the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.
“There is a plan that would involve deploying 1,500 military police officers” to occupy the Mare Complex, said Jose Luis Castro Menezes, the new chief of Rio state’s military police. The Mare Complex, a cluster of 15 favelas, or slums, is home to around 75,000 people.
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