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Calderón’s Police Proposal Under Fire
 Víctor Mayén - The News
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October 22, 2010
Mexico City – In the presence of National Action Party (PAN) federal senators, the Secretary of the Interior, Francisco Blake Mora, and the Federal Public Security Secretary, Genaro García Luna, on Thursday recognized that the proposal of President Felipe Calderón to create the Unified Police Force is deficient and infringes upon the autonomy of municipalities.
Senators, led by the president of the Municipal Development Committee, Ramón Galindo Noriega, said that the president’s proposal lacks the support of PAN senators, which is why it will be necessary to make important modifications to fill in its legal vacuums. “I think that given the current conditions of the proposal presented by the president, under recommendation of state governors, it will not be approved. We believe it must be modified in order to guarantee that municipalities will not be left out. We think it is necessary that municipalities themselves demand the creation of the Unified Police Force,” Galindo said.
Galindo said that Blake and García had already recognized that the proposal needed modifications in order to retain the autonomy of municipalities. They also noted that the Unified Police Force should not be an imposition of the state and federal governments.
“They recognized that the proposal has contradictions and that it will have to be adjusted. They showed interest in working on this. We scheduled meetings to fix the proposal,” Galindo said. José González Morfín, the PAN coordinator, said that the initiative would probably “be modified during the process of examination.”
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