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Ecuador’s government is going to all of its police officers take a lie detector test. The BBC that police chief General Wilson Alulema wants all of the police to the test to help end corruption in the . It is part of president Rafael Correa’s efforts to modernize the force a police mutiny last year. In September, 2010, Ecuador’s police mutinied a law that would have affected their pay and . They abandoned their posts and left much of the country without protection, which sparked nationwide looting and . President Correa faced the mutineers and challenged them to kill him – a bad as his own police attacked him with gas and he had to be rescued by the army.

As many as 42,000 officers will take the test. General Alulema says it will stop police officers taking bribes and turning a blind to crime. The General said he hoped the test would lead to the sacking of any linked to corruption. He told reporters he is facing an struggle to root out corruption. He pointed to around 300 officials suspended corruption allegations who were recently given their jobs . Judges argued there were too many irregularities for a to be made against them. The BBC reports the General as : “Those judges don't understand the gravity of their decisions.” Perhaps governments the world should closely follow the results of the tests and consider checks on their politicians.