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Early success claim for anticrime drive. On 27 January recently installed President Juan Orlando Hernández launched an anticrime drive codenamed Operación Morazán. It started with the deployment of the newly created Policía Militar de Orden Público (PMOP) and the Tropa de Inteligencia y Grupos de Respuesta Especial de Seguridad (Tigres) in Tegucigalpa and its sister city Comayagüela. The target, according to security minister Arturo Corrales, is to bring down the daily homicide rate from the 17 recorded at the end of 2013 to about 7 within a few months. On 18 February Corrales claimed that the rate had already fallen to 14.
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