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The Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City (Spanish: Secretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana la Ciudad de México; SSC) is the uniformed law enforcement agency of Mexico City, headquartered in Venustiano Carranza. [1][2] It manages a combined force of over 100,000 officers in Mexico City. [3]
The principal police force of Mexico City is the Protection and Transit Directorate, also known as the Traffic Police, which consists of some 32,000 officers [citation needed] organized into thirty-three precincts. It is the largest single law enforcement organization in Mexico.
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 will not run around on Mexico's streets.
Armed police at the Zócalo, Mexico City. Mexican law enforcement is divided between federal, state, and municipal entities. Estimates range between 1,600 and 3,000 different police forces in total. There are over 350,000 police agents in Mexico. [citation needed]
Firearms regulation in Mexico is governed by legislation which sets the legality by which members of the armed forces, law enforcement and private citizens may acquire, own, possess and carry firearms; covering rights and limitations to individuals—including hunting and shooting sport participants, property and personal protection personnel such as bodyguards, security officers, private ...
Corruption in the police. Corruption in the Mexican police can take many forms; it ranges from taking bribes to ignore crimes to active participation in criminal activity such as extortion, drug trafficking, and assassination. The Mexican police are notorious for their corruption that is evident on all levels of law enforcement, local and federal.
Website. www.pgr.gob.mx (Spanish) The Federal Ministerial Police (Spanish: Policía Federal Ministerial, PFM) is a Mexican federal agency tasked with fighting corruption and organized crime, through an executive order by President Felipe Calderón. The agency is directed by the Attorney General's Office (FGR) and may have been partly modeled on ...
Ammon is a city of over 20,000 people, but it has one of the lowest levy rates in the state at 0.0011. Because of this and the rising cost of law enforcement, Ammon has no dedicated funding source ...