Law enforcement in Mexico City

Coordinates: 19°25′30.5″N 99°7′7.2″W / 19.425139°N 99.118667°W / 19.425139; -99.118667
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Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City
Secretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana de la Ciudad de México
Common nameMexico City Police
AbbreviationSSC CDMX
Agency overview
Employees88,000
Annual budget$106 billion pesos - 2011 ($5.05 billion USD)
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionMexico City, Mexico
Population8,400,000
Legal jurisdictionMexico City
General nature
Facilities
Helicopters12
Website
https://www.ssc.cdmx.gob.mx

19°25′30.5″N 99°7′7.2″W / 19.425139°N 99.118667°W / 19.425139; -99.118667 Law enforcement in Mexico City is provided by two primary agencies; the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City (Secretaría de Seguridad ciudadana de la ciudad de México), who provides uniformed or preventative police, and the Office of the Attorney General of Mexico City (Fiscalía General de Justicia de la Ciudad de México) who provides plainclothes detectives and crime lab services.

Secretariat of Citizen Security

The Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City (

Venustiano Carranza.[1][2] It manages a combined force of over 100,000 officers in Mexico City.[3]

The Mexico City Police (Policía Ciudad de México) is the police department of

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 SSC is charged with maintaining public order and safety in the center of Mexico City where public insecurity and crime rates are the highest in the nation. As a result, there have been concurrent efforts to increase accountability and improve police effectiveness. Beginning in 1996, authorities began a dramatic restructuring of the SSC, which included replacing major officials with army officers. Recently, the most recent high-profile effort has been

Rudolph Giuliani
as a consultant to the SSC.

The SSC also regulates the huge

Animal Control Unit (Brigada de Vigiliancia Animal).[4]

Organization

Mexico City has a large uniformed "preventive police" force of approximately 34,000 officers, not to mention 40,000 auxiliary police and 15,000 banking police. These nearly 90,000 officers work for the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City (Secretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana – SSC CDMX). In 2011, the SSP had a budget of about $106 billion pesos (an increase from the previous year's $89 billion pesos).[3]

Command and Staff

The organizational structure and holders of area Public Safety Department are:

Secretary of Public Safety (Secretario de Seguridad Pública): Jesús Orto Martínez

  • Undersecretary Traffic Control (Subsecretaría de Control de Tránsito): Alejandro Martinez Fernando Badillo
  • Undersecretary of Police Operation (Subsecretaría de Operación Policial): Luis Rosales Gamboa
  • Undersecretary for Police Intelligence Information (Subsecretaría de Información de Inteligencia Policial): Juan Carlos Contreras Licona
  • Undersecretary for Institutional Development(Subsecretaría de Desarrollo Institucional): Luis Alfredo Hernández Velázquez
  • Undersecretary for Public Participation and Crime Prevention (Subsecretaría de Participación Ciudadana y Prevención del Delito): Yolanda García Cornejo

Preventive Police

Mexico City Police Dodge Charger in the new livery
School Protection police vehicle

The 34,000 strong Preventive Police are the uniformed police of Mexico City.[5] They are organized into seven major divisions.[3] as follows:

Mexico City Police Dodge Charger.
Dodge Vision
.
Rank insignia of the Mexico City Police.
Bell 206 of the Mexico City Police's Cóndores Group.
Bell 407 of the Mexico City Police's Cóndores Group
Dodge Avenger of the Traffic enforcement Police
Members of the Medical Urgencies and Rescue Squadron (ERUM), the Emergency medical services of the SSC.
  • Proximity Police (Unidades de Policía de Proximidad) formerly the Citizens Protection (Unidades de Protección Ciudadana) and before that Sector Police (Policía Sectoral) - The 17,000 plus blue uniformed Proximity Police is the largest division and provides community policing services throughout Mexico City. The Proximity Police consists of slightly less than half of the total Preventive Police and they are distributed geographically across six main regions, each with around three precincts for a total of 16 precincts. Each precinct is then subdivided into a number of sectors of which there are 70.[6]

The remaining five divisions of the Preventive Police, containing over 17,000 officers, are organized as follows:

Complementary Police

There are two Complementary Police (policías complementarias) which operates under the supervision of the SSP, yet is not considered to be a part of the Preventive Police. The Complementary Police contains two

Security Police
forces:

Auxiliary Police band
Auxiliary Police
  • Auxiliary Police (Policía Auxiliar): A security police force of approximately 40,000 security police officers that guards official buildings and other specific locations like the airport. On 20 May 2005, published in the Official Gazette of the Federal District's Internal Regulations of the Ministry of Public Security of the Federal District, which states that provide Supplemental Police protective services, custody and security of people and property values and property to, entities and bodies of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the Federal District and Federal, federal and local self-government bodies as well as individuals and corporations, on payment of the consideration to be determined.[16][17]
    The Auxiliary Police includes the following:
  • Bank Police (Policía Bancaria e Industrial (aka Bancarios)): A 15,000 security police officers strong force who provides security services, surveillance and specialized protection to public and private corporations based in the Mexico City metropolitan area, such as Service Providers, Banks, Industry, Trade, and Institutions Unit. It also provides services and personal security guard and transport custody of securities, commodities and products, etc.[20][21]

Private Security Directorate

The Directorate General of Private Security and Systematic Operating Procedures (la dirección general de seguridad privada y procedimientos sistemáticos de operación), regulates the activities and the provision of

private security
services in Mexico City, to ensure that such operations take place under the best conditions of efficiency, reliability, professionalism and legal and financial support for the benefit of the population.

Secretaries of Public Security

Government of Ramón Aguirre Velázquez (1982-1988)

  • (1988): Enrique Jackson

Government of

Manuel Camacho Solis
(1988 - 1993)

  • (1988 - 1991): Javier García Paniagua
  • (1991 - 1993): Santiago Tapia Aceves

Government of

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano
(1997 - 1999)

Government of Rosario Robles (1999 - 2000)

Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2000 - 2005)

Government Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez (2005 - 2006)

  • (2005 - 2006): Joel Ortega

Government Marcelo Ebrard (2006 - 2012)

  • (2006 - 2008): Joel Ortega
  • (2008 - 2012): Manuel Mondragón y Kalb
  • (2012): Luis Rosales Gamboa (as Charge Dispatch (Encargado de Despacho))

Government of

Miguel Angel Mancera
(2012 - 2018)

  • (2012 - 2014): Jesús Rodríguez Almeida
  • (2014): Luis Rosales Gamboa (as Acting Head)
  • (2014 - 2018): Hiram Almeida Estrada

Gobierno de José Ramón Amieva Gálvez (17 April 2018 - 5 December 2018)

Gobierno de

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo
(5 December 2018 - 16 June 2023)

Gobierno de

Martí Batres Guadarrama
(Desde el 16 June 2023)

Police corruption and public confidence

Corruption and severe inefficiency plague the Mexican police. Further, low pay and lack of resources have hindered efforts at improving police performance, battling corruption and professionalizing the forces. A related lack of public confidence has further eroded the ability of the police to respond to crime: A survey in 1999 found that 90% of respondents in Mexico City had “little” or “no” trust in the police. Such a lack of public confidence translates into a lack of support—that is, an unwillingness to report crimes or assist in investigations, which is crucial to solving crimes. Nationwide, only 12% of the population has expressed confidence in the police.

In 2002, advocacy group

A.T. Kearney reported in 2002 that Mexico's attractiveness to foreign investors dropped from fifth to ninth place in the world due to concerns with corruption and crime
.

Private security

Mexican and Mexico City security companies have grown significantly in recent years, in response to the state's failure to provide security. Mexico holds third place worldwide in the purchase of security equipment. Between 1998 and 1999,

private security companies
increased some 40 percent. The Mexican federal and state governments has had serious problems in regulating these companies, most of which are illegitimate since they lack the necessary legal permits. It was estimated in 1999, that about 10,000 private security firms operated in Mexico, yet only 2,000 had some form of official permit. According to official figures in December 2000, there were 2,984 private security companies registered with 153,885 employees. The inability to regulate or control these forces creates potential security problem. Since many of these companies are unregulated, some will engage in criminality instead of (or as a means of) protecting their clients, thus exacerbating the problem of insecurity. According to a study by the Mexico City legislative assembly, in 1998 there were more private security guards than police. A substantial number of private security guards were formerly police officers or presently work as security guards while off-duty. Private security is regulated by the Secretariat of Public Security.

See also

References

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