We just need to look at the national police force, which has been undergoing decades of what they call “purification” with very little success. One of the things that we detail in our report and one of the people we spoke with was the individual responsible for the police purification. He acknowledges that the process that they have set up is inadequate. Portions of this police purification process were found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Honduras. It really only affects the very lower echelons, the rank and file police, and never really reaches up at the top. Even with the purification of the lower echelons, it's not really done in a comprehensive manner. We had one witness who told us that in order to really undertake this whole process with the entire police force it would take them 25 years to do it. So it's very concerning.
On April 10th, 2014. See this statement in context.