Mexican Civil Groups Disapprove of Creation of New National Gendarmerie Fabiola Martinez and Fernando Camacho - La Jornada
go to original June 24, 2013

Representatives from civil organizations that met during the week with the Secretary of Government Relations, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, concluded their meeting by questioning the situation of prevailing insecurity in the nation and affirmed that the drop in the indicators of violence doesn't mean an effective change to stop the waves of criminals.

It was against this background that they posed the necessity of creating an auditor for the Federal Police and of having control of the systematization of information before considering the creation of new bodies such as the national gendarmerie.

According to sources, the speakers placed emphasis on the announcement indicating the level of voluntary manslaughters linked to federal crimes (almost 1,000 per month during the first term of Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration).  They demanded effective mechanisms for verifying the figures given out monthly by the federal government, as well as tools for auditing resources and operations for combating crime.

In the days prior to the meeting with social organizations, which was held on Friday, Secretary Osorio Chong had announced that he would consult with non-governmental groups in order to define the structure and operation of the national gendarmerie, one of the projects of Peña’s administration for strengthening security. It is to be a special group of federal forces, particularly for rural zones affected by acts of organized crime.

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Translated by Samantha Lisk

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