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Division Commanders, when circumstances merit assistance to the National Police.
Bulletin Number 6 (issued March 16, 2009, by the Commander of the Army):
Reiterates the obligations of members of the Army regarding the principle of
transparency.
Combating Illegal Armed Groups
The Colombian Armed Forces continue to make substantial progress in severing
ties with paramilitary groups by actively targeting members of paramilitary groups that
did not demobilize and new criminal groups. To improve these efforts, throughout the
certification period, the Colombian Armed Forces continued to fortify military
intelligence efforts, including coordinating intelligence among the interagency and
conducting numerous military operations against paramilitary groups that refused to
demobilize, and other illegal groups. During these operations, the Armed Forces
captured or killed members of illegal armed groups and confiscated weapons,
ammunition, vehicles, and money. In total, between June 16, 2008, and April 30, 2009, 22
the Armed Forces killed 129 members of new criminal groups, and captured 1,779
members of these groups. Also during the time period, the Armed Forces captured 1,735
guns; 377,620 rounds of munitions of various types; 1,076 grenades; 543 pieces of
communications equipment; 105 cars; 26 motorcycles; and 31 boats from these groups.
22 Time frame available as of July 31, 2009.
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