Venezuela's Kidnap Cops

More than five people are kidnapped in Venezuela every\day.  The country is awash with illegal\firearms, with a politicised and barely-functioning judicial system and prisons\effectively run by the gangster inmates themselves.

The Unreported\World team is allowed to travel with Police Inspector Hector Ramirez – a\hardboiled cop leading the Anti-Kidnap Squad. \He’s a telecoms specialist; his main weapons in his battle with the\abductors are his 9mm pistol - and the criminal’s own mobile phones.

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King and Brabazon join Hector every step of the way as\his team speed across Caracas in race against time to free the city’s latest\victim – a 27 year-old woman snatched from outside her own home. The kidnappers\are demanding a small fortune for her release, but by tracing the calls and tracking\the mobile phone signatures that the gang leaves behind, the squad discovers\that the kidnapper is already in jail for murder. 

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