Federal Ministerial Police#History
{{Short description|Mexican intelligence agency}}
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| constitution1 = Decree of the Union Executive on November 1, 2001
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| headquarters = Mexico City, Mexico
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The Federal Ministerial Police ({{langx|es|Policía Federal Ministerial}}, PFM) is a Mexican federal agency tasked with fighting corruption and organized crime, through an executive order by President Felipe Calderón. The agency is directed by the Attorney General's Office (FGR) and may have been partly modeled on the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States. PFM agents in action often wear masks to prevent themselves from being identified by gang leaders. PFM agents are uniformed when carrying out raids.
"Street-level" uniformed federal police patrols and transport terminal security are handled by the service personnel of the National Guard.
History
It was formed in 2009 as a reform and renaming of the Federal Investigative Agency (Agencia Federal de Investigación or AFI) which had replaced an earlier agency, the Federal Judicial Police. Some agents of the Federal Investigations Agency were believed to work as enforcers for the Sinaloa Cartel. The Attorney General's Office reported in December 2005 that 1,500 of 7,000 AFI agents — nearly 25% of the force — were under investigation for suspected criminal activity and 457 were facing charges.{{Cite book| contribution=CSR Report for Congress| title=Mexico's Drug Cartels| editor-first=Colleen W.| editor-last=Cook| publisher=Congressional Research Service| place=USA| date=October 16, 2007| contribution-url=http://ftp.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34215.pdf| access-date=2008-11-02| archive-date=2008-12-17| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217111857/http://ftp.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34215.pdf| url-status=dead}}"Crime-torn Mexican 'FBI' Investigates 1,500 Agents," Reuters, December 4, 2005; Tim Gaynor and Monica Medel, "Drug Gangs Corrupt Mexico's Elite 'FBI,'" Reuters, December
6, 2005; and, Laurie Freeman, State of Siege: Drug-Related Violence and Corruption in Mexico,
Washington Office on Latin America, June 2006.
In November 2008, Rodolfo de la Guardia García, the No. 2 official in the AFI from 2003 to 2005, was placed under arrest as investigators looked into the possibility that he leaked information to the Sinaloa Cartel in return for monthly payments.{{cite news|title=Mexico's corruption inquiry expands to ex-police official |date=November 7, 2008 |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/11/07/mexico.violence.ap/index.html |agency=Associated Press |access-date=2008-11-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081108162118/http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/11/07/mexico.violence.ap/index.html |archive-date=November 8, 2008 }}
On 29 May 2009, the Federal Investigations Agency was restructured and renamed.{{cite web|author=Jorge Ramos Pérezy Maria de la Luz González|title=Surge la Policía Federal Ministerial|url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/168545.html|publisher=El Universal|date=30 May 2009|access-date=18 September 2014|archive-date=6 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606044931/http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/168545.html|url-status=dead}}
Ranks
- Commissioner General
- Comissary General
- Chief Comissary
- Comissary
- General Inspector
- Chief Inspector
- Inspector
- Subinspector
- Officer
- Sub-Officer
Organization
- General Directorate of Ministerial and Judicial Mandates
- General Directorate of Special Security Services and Protection of Persons
- General Directorate of Police Investigation In Support of Mandates
- General Directorate of International Police Matters - Interpol
- General Directorate of Communications Center
- General Directorate of Technical Support and Logistic
Equipment
See also
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- Afghan National Police
- Civil Police (Brazil)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Federales
- Federal police
- Federal Security Service (Russia)
- Guardia di Finanza
- Iraqi Police
- Central Directorate of the Judicial Police of the National Police (France)
- People's Armed Police
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
- Scotland Yard
- Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120122054136/http://www.pgr.gob.mx/ingles/que%20es%20pgr/presentation.asp Attorney General's Office]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150703105928/http://www.pgr.gob.mx/ Attorney General's Office] {{in lang|es}}
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Category:Defunct law enforcement agencies of Mexico