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Costa
Rica:
Attacks
On
Armoured
Trucks
Has
Dropped
To
Almost
Zero
The
safest
way
to
travel
in
Costa
Rica,
it
appears,
is
in
an
armoured
vehicle,
those
vehicles
used
mainly
by
banks
to
transport
cash
and
other
valuables.
According
to
the
viceministro
de
Seguridad
Pública,
Celso
Gamboa,
the
number
of
attacks
against
armoured
trucks
has
gone
from
a
very
frequent
a
few
years
to
almost
zero
today,
Gamboa
said
the
resistance
to
these
type
of
assault
has
been
greater,
thus
increasing
the
chance
that
assailants
get
hurt,
even
killed,
thus
discouraging
these
types
of
attacks,
even
to
the
point
where
criminal
gangs
have
even
stopped
their
attempts.
Another
factor
in
the
reduction,
according
to
Gamboa,
is
the
constant
and
continued
communication
between
the
vehicles
and
the
dispatchers
and
security
forces.
Although
there
were
no
attacks
on
armoured
trucks
the
Organismo
de
Investigación
Judicial
(OIJ)
was
able
to
make
two
important
arrests
related
to
prior
attacks,
one
in
Limón,
were
six
individuals
are
alleged
responsible
for
stealing
an
armoured
truck
carrying
some
¢62
million
colones
and
another
arresting
three
individuals
suspected
of
money
laundering
and
planning
and
carrying
out
an
attack
against
a
GSI
armoured
truck
carrying
¢160
million
colones.
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