FBI to "Help Upgrade Skills" of Mexico City Police

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FBI to "Help Upgrade Skills" of Mexico City Police

June 21, 2001

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico City police commanders will begin to receive
training from FBI agents in July, local authorities said on Thursday.

Members of the U.S. law-enforcement agency will train 70 police commanders
working in Mexico City in tactics and survival skills, capital Security
Secretary Leonel Godoy told reporters.

The newly trained commanders will then pass their skills on to their own
officers, he said.

"We are not going to be satisfied if just 70 chiefs receive this course,"
Godoy said. "It will be their obligation to take this training down through
the command pyramid."

Godoy said that 10 Mexico City police commanders would also take a special
course on handling critical situations taught by members of a U.S. SWAT, or
special weapons and tactics, team.

The training is part of an effort by authorities to raise standards in
Mexico's police corps and root out generalized corruption.

In August, another 200 police officers will attend an anti-corruption
course.

Mexico City, which with its immediate suburbs has a population of about 19
million, is seen as one of the world's most dangerous urban areas, with an
average of almost 450 crimes reported each day.

 
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