About 3,200 Mexican federal police have been fired since May for failing to do their work or being linked to corruption, Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas said Monday. Of those, 465 have been charged with crimes. In addition, Rosas said at a news conference, another 1,020 officers face disciplinary proceedings for failing confidence exams. The probe started in mid-May, said Marco Tulio Lopez of the federal police internal affairs department.
“Investigations of our department began many months ago and this is the result,” federal police spokesman Ramon Salinas told CNN. Among the officers who were fired, Rosas said, were officials in Ciudad Juarez who were publicly accused by fellow officers of corruption several weeks ago. In that incident, two groups of officers shoved and fought each other outside police headquarters.
The fired officers account for about 9 percent of the federal police force, which has about 34,500 officials.
None of the dismissed officers will be allowed to be rehired on police forces at the local, state or federal levels, Rosas said.
This all should have not much effect in La Paz anyway. You can hear all this stories when you live here but I can say: I @#$%&* up a few times and got pulled over or had to deal with the cops and NONE ever asked for any bribe, all went by the book?? Just coincidence?? In my opinion La Paz IS a safe city!
The most fishy individuals I meet so far in almost 10 years are shady folks from up road. Kinda sad that one has to make such statement. So all we have to do now is watch out from them dreamers that want to sell you a 400’000$ house you could have for 200’000$ in SoCal….. Some things never change! Stay tuned on a report about conversations I overhear when flying north. Including some about them “La Paz real estate deals”. We did a little collection the last few month. That’s going to be a good one. All about La Paz and what visitors think when they leave…..

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