There is no topic where there are greater pending issues of this administration that in the security. Beyond the discourse, the country lives in a unsafety growing, where the empowerment of criminal groups is evident and in which the growth of different crimes, especially heistthe extortionhe highway robberyhe human traffickingjoin the very high wave of murders.
Claudia Sheinbaum was this week with businessmen in a meeting that had lights and shadows. Shadows because there were fewer than expected, about 300 and mostly leaders of business chambers and recognized and important non-businessmen (many of them will be on Friday at the Banking Convention in Acapulco, where both Claudia and Xochitl Galvezin addition to the fact that the CNTE blockades made it difficult to get to the historic center).
Lights because he was able to explain his economic project in sufficient depth, with several interesting chapters, especially on energy and investments. But, in addition, two things stood out. In his speech, where there was applause only at the end, he used graphs for all economic and social aspects, more than 30, that had a national vision. But when he talked about security results he only used graphs from his administration in Mexico City and as a proposal for the future he said, among other things, that the judicial police had to be deepened, that the prosecutor's office should integrate the investigations well so that criminals would be released and in developing state police forces that would coordinate with the GN.
It is not the same as what the federal government is proposing. As we have said many times, we have dedicated ourselves to debating the National Guard, about whether or not the military should participate in security, but we have not put emphasis on the creation of one or several investigative police forces that really fulfill that responsibility. We need, if we want to draw any parallels, a kind of FBI and investigative police in each state. We have to put emphasis on it. Today we have an investigative police force that is weak compared to our demands. There was also talk at that meeting of giving investigative powers and extensive road control to the National Guard (in fact, since the disappearance of the Federal Police and its highway police area, we do not have control over roads with the consequent radical increase in thefts of trailers and buses).
Morena's candidate was implicitly critical of the way in which preliminary investigations by prosecutors are integrated and highlighting that this is what allows many criminals to be released. The official discourse almost always holds judges responsible for these decisions, but the truth is that beyond the fact that there may be fear or corruption among some judges, the greatest risk for a criminal to be released is in the integration of the investigation files, in proving the crimes. Yesterday we were talking here about the case of Rosalinda González Valencia, weeks ago one of the leaders of the Unión Tepito with a long criminal history of serious crimes was arrested. In recent years he had been arrested five times and he was released each time, the last one last year. A solid investigative portfolio, with firm evidence, decreases the scope for coercion and corruption.
A central point, which is also contemplated by Xóchitl Gálvez's proposal, is to create a true police system in the country, with solid police forces in all states. The National Guard is not enough nor can it be a local police force. Beyond the successes and errors of the GN, without local police officers who fulfill their role and can really investigate and operate against crime, fighting insecurity will be impossible. It is also necessary for all these police forces to be approved with the capabilities and equipment of the National Guard.
It must be understood in this sense that security has three different dimensions: national, internal and public security. For public security we need the National Guard and the local police, that is their area of competence; When internal security is put at risk (as is happening today in many places in the republic that are controlled by crime, such as areas of Michoacán, Guerrero or Chiapas, among other states) is where military forces must intervene. That is why it was a serious mistake to declare unconstitutional the internal security law that was approved last six years, among other reasons because it established the legal framework and the obligation to divide forces according to these challenges and around the creation of approved local forces. . The legal vacuum we are experiencing, added to the strategy of hugs and not bullets, is part of what has allowed the rise of crime.
Finally, Claudia put the emphasis on developing an information and intelligence system focused squarely on the criminal issue, which is also essential. Today various areas provide information and intelligence, from the CNI to the armed forces, the GN or some local police forces. But we do not have a centralized system to generate that intelligence in the criminal field and thus be able to follow an articulated strategy of group disintegration. Omar García Harfuch did this well in Mexico City and it should be expanded to the entire country.
What Claudia didn't say is that resources are needed for all of this. OECD countries, and nations like Argentina, Chile, and Colombia, invest at least three times more than Mexico in security.
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