President Laura Chinchilla signed a joint declaration of a 10 year strategy to reduce the crime in Costa Rica. She promised to boost public security spending by 50 percent. The security minister said that over the next 3 years they will spend an estimated $250 million to combat organized crime and drug trafficking.
To help modernize Costa Rica’s police force, 13 members of Colombia’s National Police are here training Costa Rican officers on public security tactics, part of a joint Colombian-Costa Rican law enforcement exchange that could last two years.
Chinchilla reiterated that fighting crime is one of her “biggest commitments.
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