Caracas Daily Journal (Jeremy Morgan): A report at the State Prosecutors Office is reported to have concluded that of 6,885 officers from state security services who've been linked to unlawful killings between January 2000 and November last year, only 412 have ended up behind bars.
That amounts to under six percent of the total, and it's not clear how many of them have actually been brought to trial and convicted, and if so, what sort of sentences they're serving.
The largest number of denounced officers, 3,736 in all, hail from state police forces, unsurprising in itself given that state forces have more officers. More alarming, perhaps, is that another 1,325 accused officers belong to the scientific and investigative police, Cicpc, whose responsibilities almost exclusively include dealing with serious crime.
In contrast, Disip, the state security service – and Cicpc's great rival – chalked up 80 accusations against its officers.
A further 860 suspect officers hail from a myriad number of municipal forces, and 177 are in the ranks of the National Guard (GN). The report is also said to set out the details of several notorious cases of killings by security agents over the years, among them the infamous Kennedy case in which three students were killed by security officers.
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