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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.
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]
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 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] In August 2022, the National Guard formed a new tactical unit ...
May 21—ALPINE — A Mexican national, formerly a Mexican police officer, pleaded guilty in a federal court in Alpine to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to court ...
The Mexican Secretariat of Public Security or Secretariat of Public Safety, also known as the Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of Public Safety (Spanish: Secretaría de Seguridad Pública, SSP), was the federal ministry of the Mexican Executive Cabinet [2] that aimed to preserve freedom, order, and public peace and safeguard the integrity and rights of the people.
The CJNG is well known for killing Mexican police officers and creating mass graves in Jalisco, according to multiple news reports. In 2019, one investigation found 13 mass graves with 70 bodies.