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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 24 March 2017

COLOMBIA: Santos announces transformation of police

President Juan Manuel Santos has announced that his government will embark on a new plan to transform and modernise the national police force. Santos said that the police force had played a key role in bringing an end to Colombia’s long-running internal armed conflict but that it now needed to be focused on consolidating peace in a post-conflict scenario following the signing of a peace deal with the country’s main guerrilla group, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc), and the start of formal peace negotiations with its second-largest, Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN). Santos said this should not only involve combating persistent threats to national security, such as organised crime, but also conducting more traditional policing duties.

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