A law governing recourse to the military ‘when the normal capabilities of the police are overwhelmed’ was passed back in 2000, but a detailed protocol for such cases was not introduced until 2012, under the presidency of Otto Pérez Molina, who boosted the strength of the national police (PNC) and introduced new combined police-military task forces. There has been a slight decline in the level of criminal violence, but not as much progress as expected in uprooting the deeply embedded corruption that has enabled criminality to survive with impunity.End of preview - This article contains approximately 507 words.
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