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29 Oct 2016

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Peru Support Group

“Bill to end private police contracts in mines”

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The left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) tabled legislation on 25 October that, if approved, would bring to an end the practice whereby detachments of the police are stationed within privately-owned mining camps….What some construe as the privatisation of police activity has once again been raised by the deployment of police at Las Bambas. A community member was shot dead earlier this month in confrontations with protesters blocking the access road to Las Bambas. Many of the larger mining camps across Peru have within them detachments of the national police force (PNP)…