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MOZAMBIQUE: Murders point to p
The arrest of three detectives in May for the execution-style murders of civilians has compounded the notoriety of the police in Maputo, Mozambique's capital city.
On 4 April the bodies of three men, each shot several times in the head at close range, were discovered on a football pitch near the city's Costa do Sol beach. Three officers of the criminal investigation unit reportedly confessed to the killings, but alleged that superiors had ordered them to commit the crimes.
"The police had an opportunity, after the Costa do Sol executions, to clean up their image, because... Read more
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The city's police chief says police informants will undergo "integrity checks" and be photographed at drug buys, under guidelines put into place in response to a drug raid in November that ended in the shooting death of a 92-year-old woman.
The changes are necessary to protect citizens and officers in cases where police are depending upon the word of a confidential informant, Chief Richard Pennington told Atlanta radio station WSB on Monday.
In last year's incident, police said a confidential informant led them to the home of Kathryn Johnston. The elderly woman was killed and three plainclothes officers who entered her home with a no-knock warrant were wounded. Other than a small amount of marijuana, no drugs were found in Johnston's home.
Days after the shooting, a man claiming to be the informant told a television station that he never purchased drugs at his home, prompting Pennington to admit he was uncertain whether the suspected drug dealer actually existed.
Fulton County prosecutors have said they plan to seek murder charges against three police officers involved in the shooting.
Under Pennington's new guidelines, informants will undergo integrity checks, to test their veracity. Pennington is also ordering that police photograph informants as they enter into a drug location to make a buy, and that all payouts to informants be documented, and witnessed.
Pennington says some changes had been discussed before the Johnston shooting, but that incident gave the new policies a greater priority.
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