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The Insular Police of Puerto Rico was created on February 21, 1899, under the command of Colonel Frank Techner (US Marine Corps officer during the Spanish–American War), [4] with an authorized strength of 313 sworn officers. [citation needed]
This work is in the public domain in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
Operation Guard Shack was a two-year Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into corruption within the law enforcement of Puerto Rico. [1] The operation came to a conclusion on 6 October 2010, with a series of pre-dawn raids that led to over 130 arrests of members of the Puerto Rico Police Department and the Puerto Rico Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as well as other ...
The police, under the orders of General Blanton Winship, the US-appointed colonial Governor of Puerto Rico, opened fire at the peaceful Puerto Rican Nationalist Party parade, which is now known as the "Ponce massacre": 20 unarmed people (including two policemen) were killed, [79] with wounded persons ranging between 100 and 200. [80]
Law enforcement in Puerto Rico is one of three major components of the criminal justice system of Puerto Rico, along with courts and corrections.Although there exists an inherent interrelatedness between the different groups that make up the criminal justice system based on their crime deterrence purpose, each component operates independently from one another.
One particular event in Puerto Rican history had a galvanizing effect on the Puerto Rican Nationalist movement. The Ponce massacre occurred Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937, when a peaceful march in Ponce, Puerto Rico, turned into a bloody police slaughter of unarmed, defenseless Puerto Ricans.
The Ponce massacre was an event that took place on Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, when a peaceful civilian march turned into a police shooting in which 17 civilians and two policemen were killed, [6] and more than 200 civilians wounded.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Five people were killed in a drive-by shooting in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, forcing authorities to close a portion of a highway, police said Tuesday.