The mayors of the Benito Juarez and Miguel Hidalgo, Santiago Taboada and Mauricio Tabewent this morning to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) to defend the request for protection that they presented against the homologation of the image of the security institutions in the CDMX.
This, after the reform approved on August 30 by the Congress of Mexico City to the Citizen Security System Law of the country’s capital would completely eliminate the security programs of opposition mayors, such as the Shield BJ and Shield Miguel Hidalgo.
And it is that the modification to articles 79 and 138 of said law stipulates that all public institutions dedicated to security in CDMX will follow the image dictated by the Ministry of Citizen Security (SSC), with uniforms, logos and chromatic patrols in white with a green stripe with black borders.
Whereas, before its approval, in the last session of Legislature I of the Mexico City Congressthe opposition and the Secretary of Government Martí Batres agreed that in order to distinguish the units belonging to each mayor’s office, their units “may carry on the sides the name of the demarcation to which they belong, as well as the logo of their government with a measure of up to one meter long by 40 centimeters wide and in accordance with the typography issued for such purposes by the Ministry of Citizen Security or, are established in the institutional identity manual of Mexico City.
While since its creation, in 2018, the units of the Benito Juárez Blindar BJ program have worn their own color scheme, while its elements, although they belong to the SSC but are paid by the mayor’s office, wore a characteristic uniform.
Likewise, when attending the SCJN, Tabe stressed that, despite the advances in security that have been shown with the Blindar BJ program, for which it was replicated by the members of the Union of Mayors of Mexico City (UNACDMX), the government of claudia sheinbaum It seeks to completely eliminate these programs to leave only the SSC in charge of security in the capital.
About the homologation
And it is that at the time Sheinbaum assured that “now the SSC is different from the Ministry of Public Security, with another image and closer to the population”, so seeing patrols in the city with different colors would only make it difficult for citizens to know who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.
While, in a video published on his social networks, Taboada pointed out that although the SSC has a place in the city’s security, the neighbors feel more confident in being able to identify the police officers in their vicinity, since they know where to find them. when they need them.
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Lastly, those from the UNACDMX highlighted that the idea of the constitutional controversies against the homologation of the patrols and the image of the mayors’ offices to that of the central government, has as its objective the defense of the faculties and powers of the mayors, which the Sheinbaum administration seeks to cut back.
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