Police Reform – 1998

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Police Reform – 1998

1998

Intermediate Implementation Intermediate implementation

The Government graduated and deployed the first tranche of new PNC recruits, and re-trained over 6,000 former members of the National Police and Treasury Guard. However, the addition of all the new PNC officers was not enough to establish law and order throughout the country.1 Many human rights violations were committed by members of the National Police and the PNC, while both institutions lacked effective measures to prevent abuses or punish officers who use excessive force.2

  1. Ibid.; “United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala: Report of the Secretary-General,” United Nations General Assembly (A/53/421), September 28, 1998.
  2. “Ninth Report on Human Rights of the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala,” United Nations General Assembly (A/53/853), March 10, 1999.