Brazil to spend $530 million on security during 2016 Olympics

RIO DE JANEIRO. December 11. KAZINFORM Brazil will spend some 900 million reals ($530 million) to assure security during the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, the country's justice minister has said; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
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"We will expand investments in public security by three times, but we need even more [funds]," Tarso Genro said at a seminar on averting violence in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.

The minister said the money will be spent on police patrolling and establishing so-called "reconciliation police detachments" intended to maintain order in high-risk areas, particularly, in city's slums - favelas.

Genro said such detachments have already been established in eight favelas, adding other 42 detachments should be set up in the city by 2016; Kazinform cites RIA Novosti.

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