Agência Brasil

Rio - The president of the Rio de Janeiro Association of Military Police, Mequisedec Nascimento, plans to ask the Organization of American States (OAS) to issue a citation to the Brazilian government on the deaths of military policemen. He will base his request on a Fiocruz study showing that the mortality rate among the Rio Military Police, which has more than 40 thousand members, is 13 times greater than that of the Brazilian population in general and 7 times greater than that of the residents of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

The Association hopes that, through this measure, the OAS will induce Brazil to take steps to reduce the mortality rate among members of the Military Police.

Translation: David Silberstein