HONDURAS MOTORBIKE PASSENGER BAN
9 Dec 2011 Last updated at 05:00 ET
The Honduran Congress has voted to anathema motorcyclists from roving with passengers in a bid to quell a spate of drive-by killings.
The move follows two high-profile murders this week, both blamed on gunmen on motorbikes.
Congress also authorized a wiretapping law due as part of efforts to plunge in to crime though which has lifted privacy concerns.
Honduras has the world’s top murder rate: 82 per 100,000 people a year.
During a event held in in isolation since of security fears, legislators authorized a direct tying the number of people authorised on a motorbike to only one.
The measure, which will final for 6 months, was requested by President Porfirio Lobo, whose supervision is confronting taking flight crime.
“We know it is starting to start a certain part of the population,” congressman Erick Rodriguez was quoted as observant by El Heraldo newspaper.
But the nation had to take steps against hired killers, he said.
Soldiers on patrol
Motorcycles have been used in multiform high-profile murders.
Journalist Luz Marina Paz and her driver were shot dead on Tuesday as they gathering through the capital, Tegucigalpa.
The following day men on motorcycles killed former supervision confidence confidant Alfredo Landaverde in his car.
Honduras is a pass movement nation for heroin smuggled from South America and on to the US market.
Increasing intrusion by Mexican drug cartels, as well as the participation of aroused travel gangs, have increasing distrust in the country.
In November, the Honduran authorities began deploying infantry to lift out policing duties.
The police force itself is undergoing a inform among efforts to base out officers with links to organized crime.
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9 Dec 2011 Last updated at 05:00 ET
The Honduran Congress has voted to anathema motorcyclists from roving with passengers in a bid to quell a spate of drive-by killings.
The move follows two high-profile murders this week, both blamed on gunmen on motorbikes.
Congress also authorized a wiretapping law due as part of efforts to plunge in to crime though which has lifted privacy concerns.
Honduras has the world’s top murder rate: 82 per 100,000 people a year.
During a event held in in isolation since of security fears, legislators authorized a direct tying the number of people authorised on a motorbike to only one.
The measure, which will final for 6 months, was requested by President Porfirio Lobo, whose supervision is confronting taking flight crime.
“We know it is starting to start a certain part of the population,” congressman Erick Rodriguez was quoted as observant by El Heraldo newspaper.
But the nation had to take steps against hired killers, he said.
Soldiers on patrol
Motorcycles have been used in multiform high-profile murders.
Journalist Luz Marina Paz and her driver were shot dead on Tuesday as they gathering through the capital, Tegucigalpa.
The following day men on motorcycles killed former supervision confidence confidant Alfredo Landaverde in his car.
Honduras is a pass movement nation for heroin smuggled from South America and on to the US market.
Increasing intrusion by Mexican drug cartels, as well as the participation of aroused travel gangs, have increasing distrust in the country.
In November, the Honduran authorities began deploying infantry to lift out policing duties.
The police force itself is undergoing a inform among efforts to base out officers with links to organized crime.
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