31.   Key drug smugglers often buy protection from corrupt police officials using a series of relatively small bribes, federal authorities say.

32.   Madrazo pledged he would keep trying to purge corrupt police from the federal force.

33.   Many of the victims refused to cooperate with authorities because they believe corrupt police and soldiers were involved in kidnapping syndicates.

34.   Scheer is suspected of heading a group that plants drugs on foreigners so that corrupt police can arrest them and ask money for their release.

35.   Ruiz denounces violence, but does not reject assertive action against perceived abuses by ranchers, corrupt police and politicians.

36.   Salgado took office in June as the latest in a series of men named to clean up the famously corrupt police agency.

37.   The CIB commissioner urged the public to notify investigators about any evidence which could flush corrupt police from the system.

38.   The guerrillas have been championing the cause of poor workers exploited by rich farmers with the collusion of corrupt police and government officials.

39.   The organization denies responsibility and claims that corrupt police are involved.

40.   The targets, however, are also firing back, waging vocal public campaigns to portray themselves as victims of government persecution and corrupt police.