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Mexico Daily News, Jan.4, 2013

Posted by The Generals on January 5, 2013, 9:14 am
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Subject: Mexico News DAILY January 04, 2013

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Peña Nieto’s security strategy takes shape

Development: On 3 January Mexico’s public security ministry (SSP), tasked with internal security, was formally dissolved and its functions returned to the interior ministry (Segob).
Significance: The move is stage one of the new security policy unveiled by President Enrique Peña Nieto on 17 December. The new policy seeks to place greater emphasis on crime prevention. With doubts persisting as to how exactly the SSP will be incorporated, the reform signifies a return to pre-2000, when the interior ministry was the main agency responsible for security policy under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), now back in power after a 12-year hiatus.
Key points:
• Experts question how the SSP’s 30-plus units and sub secretariats will be incorporated back into the Segob. Peña Nieto’s changes also include the replacement of the public functions ministry (SSP), which monitors and evaluates the performance of federal civil servants, with a national anti-corruption commission. The SSP will remain in place until the new commission has been established.
• Police reform is also among the complex security challenges facing the new president. In early January a municipal police force in Marcos Castellanos, in the western state of Michoacán, resigned en masse in response to a series of attacks on the force that resulted in the death of four officers. Federal and state police forces have been forced to step in to defend the municipality (pop. 20,000). Similar mass resignations took place in Guadalupe and Calvo, in Chihuahua, in August last year.
• A national daily, Milenio, on 2 January reported that 12,394 people died in Mexico in 2012 in violence related to organised crime. This estimate is slightly higher than the 12,284 deaths registered in 2011, but is down on 12,658 in 2010, the peak year for violent deaths in recent years.
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