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Concerns rise over corruption
Guatemala City - More than 1,000 police officers have been investigated in recent years in Guatemala amid rising concern in its government over the level of corruption in its police ranks, its interior minister said.
Of those investigated, 250 now sit behind bars for such crimes as murder, kidnapping and drug dealing, Carlos Vielmann told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in an interview Wednesday.
The interview was conducted the same day as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released a report expressing concern about the security situation in Guatemala.
The report was issued after three Salvadoran legislators and their driver were killed February 19 in the neighbouring Central American country. Four Guatemalan police officers accused in the murders were then killed themselves days after their arrests as they were being held in a high-security prison.
'The increasing number of attacks against human-rights workers, the information that ties government officials to organized crime and the reigning impunity are evidence of the need to clean up and strengthen the democratic institutions to guarantee the defence and protection of human rights,' the report said.
The commission pointed out that already in 2003, it observed that the National Civilian Police in Guatemala was responsible for the most serious human-rights violations in the country.
The prison murders would have been unthinkable without the toleration or assent of government officials, the commission's report added.
'We are more concerned than they are,' Vielmann said in the interview, adding that initial investigations of the police killings indicated security personnel were involved.
Four suspects accused of planning the killings were taken into custody at the beginning of this week, and Vielmann said the director and several officials at the prison where the four police officers were held and killed had been arrested.
The government had also offered a reward of 13,000 dollars for the capture of two agents at large and implicated in the crimes.
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