Mexico rights body to probe police 'torture course'

Mexico's human rights commission says it is investigating police training methods after videos showed a cadet being made to roll through vomit and another having his head shoved into a pit of excrement. The grainy images of a police training course, apparently partly filmed with a mobile phone camera, caused a scandal in the Mexican media after a newspaper in the central state of Guanajuato posted them on its website last week. The paper said the video showed courses given by a private security firm to officers in the city of Leon, apparently to harden them to torture that might be inflicted by criminal gangs that have killed hundreds of police in the midst of a turf war over drug smuggling and a government crackdown. The human rights commission said the nationwide probe would examine whether the courses are used across the... [read full story]