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Mexico's law enforcement operates with three distinct powers of authority and jurisdiction: federal, state and municipal.With the recent reform of former president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Mexico's Federal Police, the agency was dissolved due to corruption, links with organized crime and similar issues.
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.
The Mexico City Police (Policía Ciudad de México) is the police department of Mexico City. Mexico City contains the seat of the federal Mexican government . There are 8.84 million residents of the city, according to 2009 estimates, and another 21.1 million people in the metropolitan region.
The police chief in a small town in central Mexico took his own life Friday as troops closed in to arrest him as part of anticorruption raids that also detained several other top police commanders ...
A total of 18 Celaya police officers have been shot to death so far this year, making the city of a half million inhabitants probably the most dangerous city in the hemisphere for police.
CELAYA, Mexico (AP) — A dead man lay on his back in the parking lot of a convenience store in late February when journalists rolled in to the north-central Mexico city of Celaya to interview police.
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]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's new government on Tuesday presented its plan to combat violence and crime, vowing to strengthen the National Guard police force and boost intelligence gathering in ...