Police Model LEA 2 Module 17 Mexico Police
Police Model LEA 2 Module 17 Mexico Police
Police Model LEA 2 Module 17 Mexico Police
LEA 2
Week 10 - Nov. 9-13
Module 17
I. INTRODUCTION:
The comparative models in policing gives the student’s idea in comparison with
other police units, their organization, practices, in particular the prevention and
control of crimes. At first, they have to study the history of the police, how it is
organized, the structure, ranks and the law which mandates the police of a certain
country.
The Federal Police (Spanish: Policía Federal, PF), formerly known as the Policía Federal
Preventiva (Federal Preventive Police), was a Mexican national police force. It was under the
authority of the Department of Security and Civil Protection. They were sometimes referred to
by the slang term "Federales" or "Mexican feds" by some U.S. agents and media. Typically,
agents of the Federal Police are heavily armed and wear dark blue, black, or gray combat
fatigues. The Federal Police was officially dissolved and absorbed to the National Guard, a new
national police institution created by president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, on 1 October
2019.
The Federal Preventive Police was created by the merger of four other federal
organizations in 1998 and 1999 in order to better co-ordinate the fight against the growing
threat of drug cartels. The agency merged the Federal Highway Police, the Fiscal Police, an
Interior Ministry intelligence unit called the Investigation and National Security Center, and
military personnel transferred en masse from the Mexican Army's 3rd Military Police Brigade.
On account of its heavily armed agents, its culture, and its origins, the Federal Police as
a whole may be considered a gendarmerie. However, two of the seven "divisions" (i.e.
branches of service) of the Federal Police have particularly military characteristics: The Federal
Forces Division and the Gendarmerie Division. The Gendarmerie Division was created in 2014,
and is legally defined as a military/police force within the Federal Police.
Public Safety Secretary Genaro García Luna hoped to reform the nation's long-troubled
police. Among other steps, he consolidated several agencies into a Federal Police force of
nearly 25,000.
The Federal Police celebrates its anniversary on July 13 every year (Federal Police Day),
with its history dating to 1928 as the successor of the agencies mentioned above.
Calderón's administration
Mexican Drug War
When Felipe Calderón took office as President in 2006, there were roughly half a dozen
drug cartels in Mexico. Each of the organizations were large and dominated huge parts of
Mexico's territorial landscape, and operated internationally and overseas as well. When
Calderón assumed the presidency, he realized that he could not rely on the federal police nor
the intelligence agencies to restore order and crack down the logistics of the mafias. Over
several decades, the cartels had bribed police commanders and top politicians; and often
riddled with corruption, state authorities would not only fail to cooperate with other authorities
in distinct federal levels, but would actively protect the cartels and their leaders. With limited
options available, Calderón turned to the Mexican Armed Forces, which, because of its limited
involvement in acting against the cartels, remained relatively immune to corruption and
organized crime infiltration. He then moved the military to parts of Mexico most plagued by
drug-violence to target, capture, and – if necessary – kill the leaders of the drug trafficking
organizations. Yet, the president understood that the military could not fight the cartels alone
and needed cops to rely on for patrolling, collecting intelligence information, and gathering
evidences necessary to prosecute drug traffickers.
With the argument that he was tired of the corruption, Calderón abolished the AFI
agency created in May 2009 and created an entirely new police force. The new force has
formed part of Mexico's first national crime information system, which stores the fingerprints
of everyone arrested in the country. They also have assumed the role of the Army in several
parts of the country. According to The New York Times, the federal police has avoided "any
serious incidents of corruption."
On October 21, 2008, President Felipe Calderón proposed to break the former Federal
Preventive Police to replace it with a different organization, because "the PFP has not yielded
the expected results and has not been a strong institution capable of serving as a model for all
police services in the country. The new corporation became the Federal Police, and it provides
support to the police as to the Federal District, states and municipalities. This decision was said
to be not entirely unexpected, given the insufficient number of convictions, the alarming
increase of violence, abductions and cases of corruption and complicity with organized crime
elements.
The final product is the 2014 creation of the Federal Police's Gendarmerie Division,
with 5,000 police agents. Its focus is on providing ongoing public security in areas with heavy
criminal activities and providing border security. It is also expected to reinforce state, city and
municipal police forces when the need arises. It is one of the seven constituent divisions of the
Federal Police reporting directly to the Commissioner, and the newest to be raised.
The National Gendarmerie is defined as a military grade force within the Federal Police.
The new National Guard, de facto successor to a similar formation raised in 1821 and
abolished in 1935, is composed today of personnel from parts of both the National
Gendarmerie and Federal Forces Divisions of the Federal Police.
Vision
Strategy
The PF was established as a central element of the strategy against organized crime and
criminality in Mexico, not only to prevent crimes and federal jurisdiction at the federal level,
but to become an institution of excellence, capable of cooperating with local police and
prosecutors in investigating the crimes of high social impact. The strategic objectives are:
Strategic objectives
Preventing and combating crime commission to ensure peace and public order.
Fight corruption, to purify and dignify the police.
Strengthen the professionalism of the members of the Institution.
Improve public perception of the institutional activities.
Promote citizen participation in crime prevention.
Consolidated as the country's largest institution in the field.
Strengthen its organizational structure and functional.
Manage resources efficiently.
Increase and strengthen the operational deployment at the national level.
Strengthening intelligence activities.
Strengthen inter-agency coordination mechanisms with the three levels of government.
Promote the updating of the legal framework.
Strengthen and upgrade the technological infrastructure.
Institutional development
The 'Integral Strategy for Crime Prevention and Fight against Crime "is based on a process of
reengineering to organizational development, as well as systems and processes in
organizational performance, with a cross through the professionalization the creation of three
academies in the Ministry of Public Security for the purpose of having Mexican committed to
legality, efficiency, professionalism and honesty in this current stage of drug influence to the
United States.
College research
It is aimed at all those aspiring and active police agents who choose to make them more
professional, from academic performance and service in the police profession.
Strength
In 2000, the PF had 10,878 agents and staff:
4,899 from the Mexican army's 3rd Brigade of the Military Police (Tercera brigada de policía
militar), included two military police battalions and an Assault Battalion.
4,000 from the Federal Highway Police (Policía Federal de Caminos)
1,500 from the Fiscal Police (Policía Fiscal Federal)
600 from the Interior Ministry's Center of National Security and Investigation (Centro de
Investigación y Seguridad Nacional) – Mexican intelligence agency.
Organization
2010 included the Policía Federal approx 35,000 civil servants on. A Comisionado General
(General Manager), which is used directly by the President of Mexico, heads with wide-ranging
powers the institution. Maribel Cervantes Guerrero broke off in February 2012 Facundo Rosas
Rosas, who held this office since 2009 .
The Special Operations Group (GOPES) is the police elite counter terror hostage rescue unit.
Ranks
Equipment
Weapons
Transport
The PF has many vehicles; land, sea and air, it is estimated to own more than 17,000 patrol cars.
The exact information regarding transport vehicles and aircraft that comprise the fleet of the
Federal Police is classified, to protect the life and efficiency of agents.
Rotary wing and fixed wing pilot training takes place in the school of Naval Aviation located on
Las Bajadas, Veracruz.
Aircraft
Fixed-wing aircraft
CASA CASA CN-235 CN-235-400 Transport 2
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Hydra Technologies Hydra Technologies S4 S4B Observation & Reconnaissance
12
Helicopters
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk UH-60M/L Transport & Air Support 12
Mil Mil Mi-17 Mi-171-V Transport & Air Support 4
Eurocopter AS350L1 Reconnaissance & Air Support
Eurocopter AS 350B3 Squirrel
Bell HelicopterBell 206
Bell HelicopterBell 412 B-412EP Transport, Air Support & Reconnaissance 3
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Police_(Mexico)