An Approach to the Mexican Municipal Preventive Police: The Municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco

Authors

  • Marcos Pablo MOLOEZNIK Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico)

Keywords:

public security, Municipal Preventive Police, Tlajomulco de Zuniga, metropolitan area of Guadalajara, Mexico

Abstract

In Mexico, public security is provided by the central government, states and municipalities, within their respective spheres of competence, resulting in a decentralized police model, under which a little more than 38% of state force is represented by the municipal police custody. While recently the survey results Justiciabarómetro, conducted in the six municipalities of the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, account for a situation marked by helplessness among the soldiers responsible for ensuring public safety; weakness shared by their peers from the police forces of the country which can be illustrated by the case of the municipality of Tlajomulco de Zuniga.

Published

2010-12-13