Talk:Public Force of Costa Rica

expenditure figures
There certainly are expenditures on the National Guard, so there ought to be some expenditures figure for that. When there is a border incident, such as that with Nicaragua in 1990, it's the National Guard who shows up -- my point being that it serves some functions of an army. Presumably a figure should be given with an asterisk (as the expenditures for the national guards of other nations probably aren't included in these estimates).

The article title implies that CR has a military. I think it shoulkd be changed to something like Abolition of military in Costa Rica, SqueakBox 15:23, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

see: http://www.ciponline.org/dialogue/9803es03.htm Basically it states that our (costarican) police force does fullfill some military functions regarding border patrol. It's by one of our political analyst's that have advice to the legislative assembly. It also refers to the need of regulation regarding police force and it's military functions regarding this aspect. --Crio de la Paz 00:35, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Also in http://www.poder-judicial.go.cr/salatercera/leyes/leypenal/leydepolicía.htm you can read the "general law of police" of Costa Rica (of 1994). There's a reform of 2005 that states there actually is a police body specifically in charge of border patrol. --Crio de la Paz 00:52, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

In http://www.pgr.go.cr at SCIJ (SINALEVI) our "Procuraduría General de la República" (roughly office of the general procurator) has a database of costarrican law that's easy to search. --Crio de la Paz 00:52, 3 May 2006 (UTC)simy sucks!1

Is the Guardia Civil an armed force?
what are the military duties that it forms? In some countries border patrol is a police role, or at least performed by a nonmilitary organization. The COIN seems like a military unit to me, but I don't know much about it. Rds865 (talk) 05:03, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

International security
My first thought on reading this article was, 'surely Costa Rica can get away with this because of America?', but I see no mention of any treaties with America or other nations. Does Costa Rica really have no security agreements with anyone? --Gwern (contribs) 16:17 19 September 2009 (GMT)

Hi there, someone previously edited the article to include this; however, they did not cite any sources. I looked up sources myself and found no such things. The United States provides EMET training, as shown in http://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R40593.pdf, but otherwise no, I can find no such agreements. 216.14.158.96 (talk) 21:51, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

In popular culture
I don't think the military portrayed in Jurassic Park III was intended to be Costa Rica's, as at the very end the helicopters are heading toward two aircraft carriers. --Snakespeaker (talk) 02:19, 5 September 2010 (UTC)


 * No, those were US Marines. Spartan198 (talk) 11:01, 11 July 2012 (UTC)


 * In the book the Jurassic Park movies are based on it explicitly says "Costa Rican military". The author was also clueless enough to mistake the word "Tico" for Tican" Hobbitschuster (talk) 00:20, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

What's a Model 2012Z?
This is listed under grenade launchers in the weapons section. I Googled that name with no relevant results. What is it? Spartan198 (talk) 11:06, 11 July 2012 (UTC) Possibly a Mistyping of the Federal Riot Gun? 63.155.119.158 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:18, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Missing as of 9/30/2016
The page has been redirected to a link that has yet to be made. The revision history has been erased. Google still seems to think that information is stored here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:F470:6:5002:2DB3:B1C9:4C5A:5234 (talk) 14:42, 30 September 2016 (UTC)