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President Submits Bill for Single Police Command to Congress
 Suzanne Stephens Waller - Presidencia de la República
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October 11, 2010
 |  | It is time to dignify police work at all levels, because belonging to our country's police forces should be a source of pride and warrant all citizens' admiration.
- Felipe Calderón |  | | |
Mexico City - Last week, Felipe Calderón submitted a constitutional reform bill to Congress to establish a Single Police Command to meet citizens' demand for a reliable, effective police corps and transform the country's security force.
“This is one of the most important reforms in the fight to achieve Mexicans' security. Throughout our history, the integration, functioning and coordination of the police force occurred haphazardly, without meeting the country's changing security needs," he said.
At the Federal Police Command Center in Iztapalapa, the President declared: “Reorganizing and strengthening the mechanisms for coordination, restoring citizens’ confidence and ensuring the minimum conditions for safeguarding rights and the full exercise of freedom is precisely what we are seeking to achieve through this initiative, which represents a major change, similar to that sought in the Penal Justice System Reform, which combines with it."
Accompanied by Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora, and Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna, the President explained that this bill seeks to reorganize local police competence and commands. The aim is to establish greater coordination and a homologated systematization of recruitment and selection and to set up reliability controls as well as awards, promotions, benefits and admission policies for police throughout the country.
"This reform proposes that every state have a police corps under the command of the governor, who will appoint a director. State police will be responsible for safeguarding people’s integrity, rights, freedom and assets, preserving and re-establishing law and order, preventing violence and crimes, reacting immediately to a crime once it is committed and sanctioning administrative crimes.
Municipal police will also be under the command of the governor, who will appoint a director at the suggestion of each local mayor. This will facilitate the coordination of state and municipal forces and their links with the Federal Police, he explained.
During the event, at which President Calderón handed out Awards for Bravery and Performance to Federal Police officers, he urged members of this institution to make a difference in Mexico so that, on the basis of their example, each state will have a police force that will establish improve the country’s public security.
"It is time to dignify police work at all levels, because belonging to our country's police forces should be a source of pride and warrant all citizens' admiration.
People should enter the Federal Police Force to make a change. Although the police force is synonymous with corruption in Mexico, Federal Police should be synonymous with honesty. Although it is widely believed that the police force is unable to cope efficiently with crime, Federal Police is and should be synonymous with efficiency and capacity, not only to deal with but also to reduce crime," he explained.
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