Is this Good or Bad

[Huey]

Rio Police Undress to Bust Beach Crime

 

 

Oct 30, 7:57 am ET

 

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Going undercover can hardly be easier.

By stripping down to swimtrunks or bikinis and mixing with bathers, a special 50-member Rio de Janeiro police unit will combat rampant beach crime in Brazil's tourist mecca from next weekend, state security officials said on Wednesday.

 

As part of a wider plan for beach security in Rio, men and women from the special undercover unit will "infiltrate among bathers."

 

"They will be in swimwear, unarmed, monitoring eventual formations of drug traders, beach robbers or any kind of disturbances, and inform uniformed beach police," a state security spokesman said.

 

Police had to deploy the wider security plan several weeks early this year after a wave of robberies at and near the famed beaches of Copacabana, Ipanema and Leblon last weekend brought fears of mass robberies by slum gangs along the beach, as happened on Ipanema in 1992.

 

In all, 1,000 police will be involved in the scheme, to run during all the Southern Hemisphere's summer.

 

Violence in and around Rio's many teeming shantytowns makes the city one of the world's most violent, although crime levels are much lower in the posh South Zone and its beaches.

 

 

[+ Lucky]

So is that really a billyclub under those speedos?

[trilingual]

It sure is, and not just in the cops' speedos! They grow 'em big in Brazil. Is it the water? The black beans? What? The rest of the world would pay to know the secret!!!

[+ Lucky]

RE: Is this Good ...of course!

 

"The rest of the world would pay..."

 

Well, many of us are paying just to see it!