Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia luna of Mexico
services, much of it monitoring organized crime and drug trafficking.
more interested in talking about bomb design.
Garcia Luna was in Washington to make the rounds of US.
stilted power-point presentation to policy experts.
up Tamaulipas as evidence of what his strategy could achieve.
Garcia Luna has purged 284 federal officers, promoted 1,600 others and added 3,000 positions.
Since becoming public safety secretary in December 2006, Garcia Luna has shaken up federal police agencies, whose staff totals nearly 25,000.
Garcia Luna has purged 284 federal police commanders, promoted 1,600 officers and added 3,000 positions.
Garcia Luna has sent officers back to class and imposed strict new professional standards.
The corruption in law enforcement agencies helped crime expand and began the evolution of the criminal and crime," Garcia Luna said during a recent appearance before Congress.
Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said the move came in response to Mexican frustration over corruption, and has nothing to do with US.
Garcia Luna said the 284 high-ranking police would be forced to undergo what he called a "trust test," including anti-doping exams, polygraphs and psychological reviews, as well as investigations of their acquaintances, friends, and family, and checks on whether their assets are in line with their earnings.
Mexican Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said during a news conference in Mexico City, on Monday, June 25, that 284 high-ranking officers would be forced to undergo an anti-doping exam, a polygraph test, a psychological review, and scrutiny on their close contacts and overall earnings.
The statement delivered to the federal Congress, in particular to the Security and Justice commissions--where the project to unify the federal police is being pushed, which is said will be resolved this year--, the AFI agents assert that Garcia Luna is incorporating personnel into the PFP and the SSP who have criminal records and ties to organized crime.
In October--the month in which Garcia Luna was supposedly intercepted in Morelos, according to the agents' statement--, the blows against El Mayo Zambada's organization worsened.
This reporter asked Herrera, “Do you think Garcia Luna is the spoiled man in the Cabinet, or are there dark complicities that unite him with the president?”“I don’t know what to think or say anymore.
ImmovableThe signs that Garcia Luna is allegedly in league with the Sinaloa cartel aren’t new.
Two days after the targeted killing of Nuevo Leon state legislator Mario Cesar Rios Gutierrez in Mexico's northern industrial city of Monterrey, Public Security Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said June 14 he will send 1,600 Federal Preventive Police officers to the city.
Commissioner Javier Herrera Valle, the ex-commissioner of the PFP who was recently fired from the SSP, says that Garcia Luna has become an untouchable official, despite his dark past and the signs that link him to drug trafficking.
I dont know what to think or say anymore.
But I dont doubt that Garcia Luna is untouchable, and that is very dangerous for the country.
The signs that Garcia Luna is allegedly in league with the Sinaloa cartel arent new.
It has to do with transcriptions of telephone calls, emails sent by people who identify themselves as members of the Gulf cartel—in 2005 there was a serious fight between Los Zetas and the Beltran Leyva family for control of Acapulco and Zihuatanejo, two important narco turfs—in which they report that Garcia Luna was receiving million-peso payments from the Beltran Leyvas.
We know that the AFI director, Genaro Luna is in collusion with Arturo Beltran Leyvas organization.
Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said the review had nothing to with those discussions and was in response to Mexicans who are tired of crime and corruption.
Garcia Luna said 284 high-ranking police would be forced to undergo what he called a trust test in which authorities would subject officers to anti-doping exams, polygraphs and psychological reviews; investigate their acquaintances, friends, and family; and check whether their assets are in line with their earnings.
Garcia Luna said the action had been in the works for some time, and the forces had people already in place to take over the daily duties of the 284, who will also take courses to update their training to make them more efficient and professional.
Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said authorities would not be deterred by an onslaught of attacks against police as he presided over the funeral of Edgar Gomez Millan and two other federal officers killed this week.
The "attacks by organized crime against federal police in the last few days are in response to their interests being affected," Garcia Luna said as he stood near the three coffins guarded by heavily armed agents wearing bulletproof vests.