Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto Plans to Dissolve Local Police Forces Agence France-Presse
go to original November 27, 2014

Eleven mutilated corpses, many of them decapitated, were found dumped by the roadside in southwest Mexico on Thursday in the same state where 43 trainee teachers were abducted and apparently massacred two months ago, local authorities said. The grisly discovery came just hours before embattled President Enrique Pena Nieto was set to announce a series of measures to improve law and order in a land grappling with daily drug gang violence. (WochitGeneralNews)

MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s president announced plans on Thursday to dissolve the country’s corruption-plagued municipal police forces, in a sweeping security reform amid a crisis over the role of gang-linked police in the presumed massacre of 43 students.

“Mexico must change,” President Enrique Pena Nieto said in a televised speech, following weeks of protests over a case that has highlighted Mexico’s struggle with police corruption.

Pena Nieto said he would send a set of constitutional reforms to Congress on Monday that would allow federal authorities to take over municipalities infiltrated by drug cartels.

He said the measures also include the dissolution of the country’s 1,800 municipal police forces, “which can easily be corrupted by criminals.”

Police duties would be taken over by state agencies in each of the 31 states and the federal district, creating a force that is “more trustworthy, professional and efficient,” he said.

The overhaul would begin in four of the country’s most violent states: Tamaulipas, Jalisco, Michoacan and Guerrero.

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