Police corruption nowadays in Perú

My friends:

I'm sorry to say that, to some degree, or in some places of our country, our national police force is corrupted to such levels that it is hard to understand.

Today I read this news: a local businessman went yesterday morning to a near bank agency in Lima to retire a regular amount of cash he needed to buy wood for the furniture industry he runs; while he was on his way for the wood, 2 vehicles with 3 burglars inside intercepted him over a lonely corner; this guys shot three bullets to the air and grabbed the money inside the car; the businessman stayed put and only memorized the faces of the robbers; the burglars fled away as hell with his money leaving him alive and unhurt but terrorized.

After some minutes he needed to recover from the terrible experience he went to the local police station to make a formal complaint about it and, to his incredible surprise, guess what......

He recognized the police station chief, by the clothes he was still wearing (civilian clothes) as the head of the burglars who robbed him minutes earlier! Later he knew that a second officer from the same police station was involved in the case! Some fellow officers, after being informed by the businessman of the case, arrested inmediatly the suspected burglar and today, the bad officer recognized as being involved in such a crime and he is now in preventive prision to be soon judged.

Of course this case is one of many we read about (or see in local TV news) regularly but it is also true that most of the police officers are professionals that put their own life in risk to protect us against the organized crime in Perú; I've heard that in Mexico there is a popular saying that goes like this: "if you are robbed don't tell it outloud, the police could be near and can hear you!!"

JSR