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Brazil police say eight firemen evaded duty at deadly nightclub blaze: TV

June 13, 2013 01:31
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian police accused eight firefighters of dereliction of duty for their alleged failure to enforce fire codes at a nightclub where a January 27 blaze resulted in the deaths of 242 people, the Record TV network reported on Wednesday. The accused, all men, were responsible for inspections of the Boate Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, a university town in Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Military police watchdog warns significant gaps remain in its authority

The Canadian PressMay 6, 2013 16:45
OTTAWA - The country's military police watchdog has told Parliament it still does not have the full authority it needs to discharge its mandate, despite recent changes to the law. Specifically, the Military Police Complaints Commission says there remain "significant gaps" in its power to pry documents out of the federal government when conducting a public hearing or investigation. The commission's annual report was tabled Monday in Parliament.

Brazil police officers arrested in murder probe

April 1, 2013 22:45
Eight Brazilian military police officers were arrested Monday as part of a probe into the murder of two youths after the fatal shooting was shown on television, the force said. On Sunday, Globo TV aired a video of footage stemming from security cameras that shows two men on a motorcycle approach three youngsters in the popular Bras neighborhood in Sao Paulo, without taking off their helmets, and shoot two of them. Images from another camera show that, at the time of the executions, a military police vehicle was parked about 50 meters (yards) from where the victims were.

Elite police units deployed in restive southern Brazil

February 16, 2013 18:15
Elite police commando units fanned out across the streets of southern Brazil on Saturday, in a bid to contain a wave of violent attacks over the past two weeks. The attacks -- allegedly ordered by criminal gangs from within Brazil's prisons -- have seen buses and private passenger cars torched and police fired upon in some 30 towns and cities in Santa Catarina state since January 30. "With the support of the national police force, we have launched Operation Secure Santa Catarina," state military police spokesman Joao Carlos Neves said.

Rash of criminal attacks reported in South Brazil

February 9, 2013 03:30
A rash of criminal attacks, including the torching of buses and firing on police, have been reported across the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, and authorities blame them on a crackdown on drug trafficking and a prison-based gang. In the latest incidents, a 22-year-old suspected criminal was killed in an overnight shootout with police in Joinville, in the north of the state, while shots were fired at police and three buses and two carts torched across the state, security officials said.
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