The most controversial name in law enforcement is Commissioner José Ricardo Ramírez del Cid, the newly named director of the National Police. In a hierarchal institution, two senior classes of police administrators were oddly passed over when Ramírez was named to his post. U.S. embassy officials, Honduran government authorities and prosecutors acknowledge that even in […]
We the parish of Saint Michael the Archangel, Macuelizo, Santa Bárbara, let the following be known: 1. We make known publicly that on Monday, December 26, at 8:15 pm, Father Marco Aurelio Lorenzo and two people accompanying him suffered an assault, abduction, and intent of homicide by members of the Preventive Police of San Miguelito […]
All high ranking police and security officials have been called to report to the Presidential House by President Porfiro Lobo for a dialog regarding the shooting of the two UNAH students; one of whom was the son of Julieta Castellanos, the Director of UNAH.
This morning, the national police arrested four national police officers assigned to Metropolitan Police Station No. 1 in Tegucigalpa for the murders of Rafael Castellanos (son of the Director of the Autonomous National University of Honduras – UNAH) and his friend, Carlos Pineda, who were both students at the UNAH. Three of the arrested officers […]
Excerpt… “Alvarez’s departure was the result of tension between his office and the leadership of the National Police. Allegedly, the top officials in the police force threatened to quit en masse if Alvarez was not forced out of office.” “This was likely sparked by Alvarez’s repeated attempts to purge the police of corrupt elements, something […]