Sao Paulo Deploys Extra Police After Crime Wave

By Palash Ghosh | June 12 2012 3:24 PM

Four hundred extra police officers have been deployed across Brazil’s largest city, Sao Paulo, amid a huge crime wave that threatens ahead of the St. Anthony’s Day holiday, the Brazilian version of Valentine’s Day.

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Brazil will replace Great Britain as the world’s sixth-largest economy by the end of the year, according to a forecast by the Economist Intelligence Unit

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State governor Geraldo Alckmin unveiled the police crackdown in the wake of a flurry of armed robberies in affluent bars and restaurants.

The additional cops will join the existing force of some 3,500 officers in the sprawling city of almost 20 million people.

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