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Security & Strategic Review - March 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
‘Community police’ spread becomes more complicated
At his confirmation hearing in the senate in late March, new public security commissioner Manuel Mondragón was at pains to refute claims that the emergence of ‘self-defence’ groups and ‘community police’ [SSR-13-02] was threatening to make Mexico ungovernable. Events over the following weeks in Guerrero and Michoacán showed that at the very least they had become a complex political issue that, at the very least, has suddenly posed a challenge to the government’s aim of establishing single commands of all police forces at state level.
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