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Weekly Report - 08 August 2013 (WR-13-31)
BRAZIL: Rio’s police chief fired
With Brazil’s military police (PM) under close scrutiny in the wake of their aggressive handling of June’s protests, the head of the PM in Rio de Janeiro has been sacked. Col. Erir Ribeiro Costa Filho was dismissed by Rio’s powerful state security chief, José Mariano Beltrame, after he ordered an amnesty for police officers who committed undefined “administrative” misdemeanours, arguing that their suspensions were causing a staffing crisis. Up to 450 officers would have had their failings expunged from the official records had the decree been allowed to stand. Instead, the first act of the new state security chief, Col. José Luís Castro Menezes, was to reverse that decision.
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