In Mexico City, for instance, they show kidnaps rising from 141 in 2000 to 185 in 2003.
They find that data for different Colombian regions reveal an intriguing statistical correlation between mobile-phone coverage and falling kidnaps.
Its figures show kidnaps falling, from 568 in 2001 to 531 last year.
Since speed is of the essence in foiling kidnaps, this made police more effective and kidnapping riskier for its perpetrators.
Pakistani community groups in Oldham say they are considering setting up a fund to pay ransoms in the event of kidnaps.
Colombia has long been the world leader: Kroll reckons 4, 000 kidnaps took place there last year (just 2, 043, says the government).
Pakistani community groups in Oldham have said they are considering setting up a fund to pay ransoms in the event of kidnaps.
In Mexico lucrative celebrity-kidnaps have been replaced by grabs of ordinary victims, who are taken to cashpoints to empty their bank accounts.
But the take-off in mobile coverage also lagged the fall in kidnaps.
Written and directed by Tom Six, the film tells the story of a demented surgeon who kidnaps tourists to use for his bizarre experiments.
With Eva Mendes, as an impassive high-fashion model whom Lavant kidnaps.
Police collusion, and the consequent fear of reporting kidnaps, mean that this crime epidemic has failed to receive the kind of relentless media coverage given to drug trafficking.
The play - opening at the Comedy Theatre in October - will see the 38-year-old play a former political prisoner who kidnaps a man she believes raped and tortured her.
The Buenos Aires provincial force has an especially bad name: its officers appear to have been actively involved or bribed to look the other way in many kidnaps, including the Blumberg case.
When the hideous creature escapes and kidnaps the object of his affection, a crusade is launched to rescue the helpless woman and cast the terrifying creature back to the depths from which he came.
Reported kidnaps (more than half of which are estimated to be by the guerrillas) rose to 1, 532 in the first six months of this year, up from 1, 456 in the same period of 1999, according to Fundacion Pais Libre, a civic group.
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