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Article

1 Oct 2009

Author:
Sebastian Lacunza, IPS

ARGENTINA: Dubious Past? No Problem for Private Security Firms

Civil society groups in Argentina are concerned that private security firms...employ many former police officers and troops who played an active role in the political repression during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship...[T]he legislature of the city of Buenos Aires passed a measure under which the names and job history of the owners and employees of private security firms...must be published…Police chief Jorge Ramón Fernández, found guilty of torturing to death 17-year-old Sergio Durán…was working for the Segur Part security firm…A [Centre for Legal and Social Studies] report, "the informal and illegal relations between the private security agencies, people linked to state terrorism in the last dictatorship, and Buenos Aires police officials were proven in the case of the Jan. 25, 1997 murder of photo journalist José Luis Cabezas [also refers to Investigaciones Privadas Alsina, Scanner, Strategic Security Consultancy, Fidei]