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### Viewing cable 08MEXICO1063, THE GOM'S FEDERAL POLICE REFORM PLANS AND

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08MEXICO1063 | 2008-04-09 19:17 | 2011-06-08 20:30 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Mexico
Appears in these articles: http://wikileaks.jornada.com.mx/notas/minimiza-garcia-luna-papel-del-ejercito-en-lucha-antinarco-eu

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 05 MEXICO 001063

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    DEPARTMENT FOR INL

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/12/2028
    TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
    SUBJECT: THE GOM'S FEDERAL POLICE REFORM PLANS AND
    ACCOMPLISHMENTS
    Classified By: Political Minister Counselor Charles V. Barclay,
    Reason: 1.4 (b), (d).

    ¶1. (U) On February 27, Emboffs met with Hector Sanchez from
    the Public Security Secretariat's (SSP) Office of
    International Relations to learn more about the GOM's police
    reforms and SSP's restructuring plans.  This cable outlines
    the seven goals/guidelines that constitute SSP's "bible" for
    where the Secretariat is headed.

    --------------------------------------------- -----------
    Goal 1:  Aligning the State's Capability to Combat Crime
    --------------------------------------------- -----------

    Justice System Reforms
    ----------------------

    ¶2. (U) On March 6, 2008, Congress approved a package of
    criminal justice system reforms, which will complement SSP's
    strategic reform plan.  The approved legislation promotes a
    uniform criminal code and adversarial justice system,
    including oral trials.  The legislation will also allow the
    authorities to record private conversations, and will enforce
    house arrest and pre-trial detention in cases involving
    suspected organized crime, national security or homicide.
    The legislation also aims to modify the entire federal police
    structure across the country to emphasize internal affairs
    units and other ways to professionalize the police.  (Note:
    Since the justice system reform package includes
    constitutional amendments, a minimum of 17 states need to
    approve the reform. End note.)

    National Security Council
    -------------------------

    ¶3. (SBU) SSP has also created a National Council for Public
    Security to encourage cooperation among federal public
    security agencies and with state and local authorities.
    According to Sanchez, 95% of Mexican states are participating
    in the council.

    Federal Police Merger
    ---------------------

    ¶4. (SBU) This goal also includes the integration of various
    federal police entities under a single command.  The recently
    approved criminal justice system reforms will officially
    centralize the command structure of federal police agencies,
    so as to better coordinate anti-crime operations.  As of
    March 2007, the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) (of the
    Public Security Secretariat (SSP)) and the Federal
    Investigations Agency (AFI) (formerly of the Attorney
    General's office (PGR)) were engaged in merging into a single
    unified "Federal Police" under SSP's control. The justice
    system reform officially merges the two entities and also
    includes provisions to transfer budget control for AFI from
    PGR to SSP.  Consolidation of the leadership of the PFP and
    AFI will also expand the authority of the new Federal Police
    to include investigations (which the PFP lacked).

    ¶5. (C) Sanchez said Federal Police (FP) officers will be
    better trained and capable of conducting investigations.
    Sanchez also noted that the current police restructuring plan
    will grant SSP greater responsibilities on migration and
    customs issues.  He was vague, however, on how the SSP would
    be able to exercise those authorities.  He told Emboffs that
    SSP would train their own personnel to enforce the pertinent
    laws, in coordination with INM and Aduanas.  He later
    admitted, however, that some officers from those entities
    could be transferred to SSP.

    SSP's Subsecretariat of Police Strategy and Intelligence
    --------------------------------------------- -----------

    ¶6. (SBU) SSP's Subsecretariat of Police Strategy and
    Intelligence (PSI) will oversee the operations of the new
    combined Federal Police (FP).  On February 27, SSP announced
    Facundo Rosas Rosas as the new Undersecretary for Police
    Strategy and Intelligence, replacing Patricio Patino. (Note:
    Patino was repositioned as Undersecretary of the Federal
    Penal System, replacing Jose Luis Lagunes Lopez.  End Note.)
    According to SSP Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna, these changes
    were based on the need "to provide the police with more
    capacity to investigate and combat organized crime." Sanchez
    told Emboffs that he does not expect Rosas' appointment to
    portend any significant changes to SSP's reform agenda.

    ¶7. (SBU) Sanchez provided Emboffs an organizational chart of
    the PSI Subsecretariat and its six sections:

    -- Police Intelligence Unit:  Responsible for field
    collection, tactical analysis, and technical support.

    -- Information Analysis Unit:  Charged with consolidating
    information in a criminal data base and providing thematic
    and regional analysis, as well as interpol (liaison
    functions).

    -- Judicial and Ministerial Services Unit:  Responsible for
    coordinating with local and state authorities as well as
    federal entities, such as the customs and immigration
    services, and the courts. (Sanchez likened this unit to the
    U.S. Marshals Service.)

    -- Prevention and Social Proximity Unit:  Responsible for
    metropolitan police, airport security, and ports of entry.
    This unit will also liaise with community organizations and
    NGOs to improve the police's image and oversee campaigns to
    encourage citizen participation in the war against crime
    (such as encouraging the population to provide information on
    suspect activity).

    -- Federal Support Forces:  This component will house SSP's
    tactical and immediate response teams.  Sanchez noted that
    they would be housed in about 6 of the projected 500 police
    bases around Mexico to provide regional coverage.

    -- Antidrug Police Unit:  This unit will be largely
    autonomous and house its own intelligence, analysis, and
    rapid response capabilities.

    500 Police Stations
    -------------------

    ¶8. (C) Sanchez said FP officers will eventually be disbursed
    to 500 police bases around Mexico.  (Note: SSP has previously
    stated that there would eventually be an FP presence in every
    city of 15,000 or more.  End Note.)  Sanchez noted that there
    are now only 34 bases and expects the 500 to be achieved by
    2012 (the end of President Calderon's term); he added that
    another 40 bases should open in 2008.  The police stations
    will be responsible for:

    --Receiving citizens' reports of crime and responding in a
    timely fashion.

    --Providing the analysis, technical services and
    investigation needed to generate intelligence that will lead
    to the disruption of criminal organizations.

    --Integrating FP approaches to the prevention, investigation
    and prosecution of crimes.

    --Responding to regional crime trends, especially in high
    crime areas.

    --------------------------------------------- ------
    Goal 2:  Crime Prevention and Citizen Participation
    --------------------------------------------- ------

    ¶9. (SBU) This goal envisions creating citizen councils for
    the purpose of strengthening citizen involvement in security
    issues.  Subject matter experts and NGOs will be members of
    the councils, in order to develop security policies, and to
    carry out critical reviews of the efficiency of actions taken
    in security matters at the national, state, and local level.

    ¶10. (SBU) SSP's goal paper on Crime Prevention and Citizen
    Participation references an "inter-institutional" strategy
    with the Secretariats of Social Development, Education and
    Health, as well as the National Sports Commission, focused on
    urban locations with high poverty and crime indexes.  The
    strategy integrates three programs:  (1) the "Safe Schools"
    program to promote security and a healthy environment in
    public schools; (2) the "Health Without Drugs" program to
    prevent addictions; and (3) the "Recovering Public Spaces"
    program, which promotes the rehabilitation of public areas
    for social gatherings under a drug-free and safe environment.
     Because of their proximity, the planned 500 police bases
    (see Goal 1) will be instrumental in stimulating social
    participation in these citizen programs and councils.

    --------------------------------------------- ------
    Goal 3:  Improving the SSP's Institutional Capacity
    --------------------------------------------- ------

    A Police Career Service
    -----------------------

    ¶11. (C) This goal includes a process of development and
    training to create a professional federal police career
    service. SSP is currently seeking new recruits at Mexican
    universities to ensure they get qualified and well-educated
    candidates.  Sanchez said that in 2007 SSP hired 600
    university graduates and by the end of Calderon's term they
    hope to bring on an additional 8,000.  He acknowledged that
    this figure might be ambitious, but he was confident that the
    goal would be met by 2012. All new recruits will go through
    four months of basic training.  Afterwards, there are two
    phases of police education:  (1) intelligence training and
    (2) the Superior Academy in San Luis Potosi.   The academy
    currently has 950 students, including local and state police
    recruits, as well as participants from Central American
    countries.

    ¶12. (SBU) In a separate meeting on March 13, SSP Secretary
    told DEA representatives at post that the Federal Police
    force is currently adding approximately 10,000 police
    personnel to patrol the northern and southern borders of
    Mexico.  He related that there are currently 1,500 additional
    management level elements currently receiving/completing
    advanced degrees and preparing to take leadership positions
    within the SSP, and another 1,500 police elements undergoing
    Basic Police Academy training.  Garcia Luna signaled that
    professionalizing and institutionalizing the Federal Police
    was his number one priority and that both he and President
    Calderon believe 2008 is vital to making lasting changes
    within the SSP for its survival.   He said, "When I'm gone,
    the Police should continue to work as if I were still
    here...and that's 'by the book.'"

    Human Rights Curriculum
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    ¶13. (SBU) On March 6, SSP officials told DAS Jacobson that
    they were working with Amnesty International, Human Rights
    Watch, and the UN Human Rights Commission on curriculum
    development for the police academy.  They expect the new
    curriculum to be ready for course work in November 2008.
    (Note:  On March 12 poloff followed up with Alberto Herrera,
    Executive Director at Amnesty International (AI), Mexico.  He
    said AI-Mexico and SSP do not have a formal arrangement on
    training, but that AI has made verbal agreements to provide
    training to approximately 900 mid-level SSP police officers.
    Herrera said that AI-Mexico itself does not have the capacity
    to support this type of training; however, AI-Netherlands
    will come to Mexico and train police officers on human
    rights.  Right now the role of the AI-Mexico is to be the
    point-of-contact for SSP, AI-Netherlands and the AI
    headquarters in London.  He said AI-Mexico hopes to
    participate in training for SSP in the future after they
    obtain the resources. End Note.)

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    Goal 4:  Improving the Penitentiary System
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    ¶14. (SBU) SSP recognizes the need to begin to address the
    many problems associated with modernizing its prison system
    and has begun to strengthen this program through a number of
    personnel changes at top levels within the SSP, with the
    appointment of a new Prison System Director and a new
    Under-Secretary to begin to implement modern practices.
    While this program is in a formative stage, SSP is
    considering the use of a number of anti-corruption measures,
    to include changes in: personnel selection criteria (not only
    for prison guards, but for mid-level and leadership personnel
    as well); application of new technology to reduce smuggling
    of illegal goods and drugs into the prisons; cell phone
    jamming technology to eliminate continued control of street
    activity by imprisoned cartel and organized crime leadership;
    streamlining the flow of intelligence information to aid in
    criminal investigations within the system and at the street
    level; and an aggressive nationwide training program for all
    on-board personnel and new candidates for positions within
    the prison system.  SSP is reaching out to other countries to
    determine "best practices" that can assist in the
    standardization of prison administration at different levels
    of control (minimum to maximum security facilities).

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    Goal 5:  Combating Corruption
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    ¶15. (C) SSP is strengthening its vetting processes.  Sanchez
    noted that SSP officials, federal police officers, and new
    recruits will go through several layers of scrutiny --
    including every six months anti-doping (toxicology) testing,
    polygraphs, psychological, and personal assets screening.
    SSP will create the National Center for Evaluation and
    Integrity Control, which will be responsible for these
    evaluations and generating standards relevant to the National
    Police Career Service (see Goal 3).

    ¶16. (C) By mid-2008 SSP plans to have a cadre of about 300
    trained polygraphers.  This group will be responsible for
    testing SSP employees, as well as state and local police.
    The examiners will also be made available to other federal
    entities.  Sanchez was unable to provide specifics about how
    the polygraphers would be used in the state and local
    contexts.  He was also unsure about whether SSP would be able
    to force local authorities to undergo screening, or if it
    would be by invitation only.  Sanchez said the police reforms
    will prompt the SSP to clean house and that officers shown to
    be corrupt will be forced to leave.  SSP realizes that this
    may cause temporary manpower shortages.  There was also
    concern about the possibility that separated officers may go
    to work for "the other side," by which Sanchez meant
    organized crime.

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    Goal 6:  Information Technology:  Platform Mexico
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    ¶17. (SBU) Police reforms also entail the creation of a
    nationwide database to track criminals and monitor criminal
    activity across jurisdictions. As such, the GOM has begun the
    multi-year development of Platform Mexico (PM), an initiative
    valued at roughly $100 million.  When finished, PM will
    establish real-time interconnectivity among all levels of
    police and prosecutors (federal, state & local) and generate
    a single, unified national crime database.  According to
    Garcia Luna, data in this system will date back 10 years and
    will include an array  of identification data, including
    criminal history, vehicle and firearms information, and
    immigration and narcotics related intelligence.

    ¶18. (C) PM is slated to become fully operational by the
    October 2008 and eventually will be made available to each of
    the planned 500 federal police bases.  It will be housed at
    SSP headquarters in Mexico City under the purview of the
    Undersecretary for Institutional Development and Evaluation.
    Sanchez noted that all users of the system will be given
    individual user IDs so that SSP can track who has accessed
    the system and when they used it.  He said SSP plans to share
    system data with other federal agencies, but noted that these
    other agencies would probably not have full access to the
    system, but rather would receive information tailored to
    their specific needs.

    ¶19. (C) On March 6, DAS Jacobson and Emboffs had the
    opportunity to visit SSP's new Federal Police Center for
    Operations, which is linked to Platform Mexico.  The Center
    monitors and manages the GOM's interdiction activities using
    information from the U.S. Embassy Information Analysis
    Center, as well as information from other Mexican government
    agencies.  The Center also has the responsibility of
    monitoring federal penal institutions and key strategic
    locations in Mexico City.

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    Goal 7:  Indexes and Measurement
    --------------------------------

    ¶20. (SBU) In order to strengthen the culture of
    accountability and ensure transparency and results, SSP will
    design measures centered on crime prevention, successful
    prosecutions, administration of justice and professionalism.
    Such measures will be created in coordination with civil
    society organizations.  In order to establish credibility and
    trust, civil society will also be responsible for monitoring
    the indexes.

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    Short on Accountability
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    ¶21. (C) Mexican security expert Ernesto Lopez Portillo
    expressed concerns to Poloff about police accountability for
    abuses and corruption.  He believes SSP Secretary Garcia Luna
    is overly reliant on vetting police officers (polygraph,
    drug, psychological and other tests) instead of changing the
    institutions themselves.  Even if vetting were the answer he
    doesn't believe Garcia Luna is allowing for enough time to
    evaluate over 400,000 police officials.   Overall, he
    believes Garcia Luna is taking on too many projects in too
    short a period of time.  He fears that the GOM will build up
    a very powerful justice system supported by lots of
    technology and equipment but too little accountability.  On
    that score, he  worries about empowering the police to assume
    greater responsibility for investigating their crimes without
    holding them more accountable for abuses.  He argued that
    Mexico needed good civilian oversight of the police of the
    variety in place in the U.S.

    ¶22. (C)  Comment. Garcia Luna's proposal for reform has its
    flaws but, if completed, will represent an improvement on the
    current system.  He seeks to transform an unmanageable array
    of competing agencies with overlapping jurisdictions into one
    coherent institution with clear lines of responsibility,
    based on a common set of objectives and standards.  He places
    great emphasis on education -- key to any modern police
    institution -- and on accountability, particularly in the
    form of removing officials who don't pass vetting procedures.
     It is also worth noting that Mexico's semi-autonomous
    National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has local chapters
    located throughout Mexico with whom citizens can lodge
    complaints about police abuses.  However, an additional step
    that the reforms still need to address is doing more to
    strengthen procedures to prosecute abusive and corrupt
    officials.

    ¶23. (C) Comment Continued.  Few in the public would fault
    Garcia Luna for wanting to create an urgent timetable for
    implementation of reforms.  On the contrary, concerned about
    the corrosive effect of organized crime on Mexican
    institutions, the investment climate, and personal security,
    Mexicans are impatient for change and strongly support
    justice system reform and police restructuring.  To be
    successful, the reforms will need to allow for greater
    civilian involvement in public security policy development
    and in oversight of police activities.  Garcia Luna has
    signaled openness to both.  Whether he can achieve the many
    ambitious goals he has set remains an open question.

    Visit Mexico City's Classified Web Site at
    http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/mexicocity and the North American
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