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Mexico City Federal Police Building. On May 29, 2009, the Federal Preventive Police name was changed to Federal Police, and some duties were added to it. The Federal Police was created as the main Federal Preventive Police in 1999 by the initiative of President Ernesto Zedillo (1994–2000) to prevent, combat and to enforce the law that drugs should not circulate on Mexico's streets.
There are two federal police forces, 31 state police forces including two for Mexico City, and (per an investigation of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Safety System) 1,807 municipal police forces. There are 366 officers per 100,000 people, which equals approximately 500,000 in total.
It was formed in 2009 as a reform and renaming of the Federal Investigative Agency (Agencia Federal de Investigación or AFI) which had replaced an earlier agency, the Federal Judicial Police. Some agents of the Federal Investigations Agency were believed to work as enforcers for the Sinaloa Cartel. The Attorney General's Office reported in ...
Mexico National Security Commission/Amanda Macias/Business Insider. Angulo also pointed investigators to the office within the federal police that is by law responsible for implementing and ...
López Obrador has cut off most of the federal funding once used to train police forces in Mexico, opting to spend the money instead on creating the quasi-military, 117,000-officer National Guard.
The National Guard (Spanish: Guardia Nacional) is the national gendarmerie of Mexico, created in 2019 by absorbing units and officers from the Federal Police, Military Police, and Naval Police. [1] [2] In 2022, a reform package approved in the Mexican Congress transferred command of the National Guard to the Secretariat of National Defense. [3]
The Grupo de Operaciones Especiales (GOPES) (English: Special Operations Group) was the police tactical unit of the Federal Police of Mexico. In October 2019, the Federal Police were disbanded, and its personnel and equipment were transferred to the newly formed National Guard. [1]
García Luna, by contrast, was a powerful public official who held the trust of Mexico’s president from 2006 to 2012, Felipe Calderón, who mobilized the military and federal police in what ...