As the State of Jalisco reevaluates police forces in municipalities, 52 police in Puerto Vallarta join over a thousand state-wide who have been deemed as unfit for civil protection.
The evaluation is a test of “Control and Confidence” being required by the state for police in all state municipalities. In Puerto Vallarta, 152 police failed the test while 100 are given an opportunity to be reevaluated.
Jalisco State Governor, Aristotle Sandoval, has stated that police elements that are not trustworthy, or otherwise unfit for duty, should be dismissed.
In 2010, the State of Nuevo Leon began a similar program that reduced the state’s crime by 75 percent.
Gov. Rodrigo Medina rolled out the Alliance for Security program in 2010, when the state was being overwhelmed by a wave of drug-related violence, creating a unified security forces command via agreements with Nuevo Leon’s municipal governments.
Municipal police departments still exist, but they now operate in coordination with state and federal law enforcement agencies.
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Please note our story is not accusing any police officer with corruption. Officially police were terminated because they were unable to meet the standards set for law enforcement, no official record indicates any sign of police corruption as being the reason for any officer being dismissed. Any statement of such is drawn from personal opinion, not from this report.
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for Mexicans and x-pats I sure hope this makes a difference!
In the US the corruption is built into the system. Here in PV a crooked cop demands 200 pesos ($15). In the US the cop (agent of the state, paid by the state) hands you a ticket for $200 dollars and you are annoyed but see it as legit. The state then pays the cops salary with the extorted fine. Is there any difference in the corruption?
This corruption thing is in every country.
Carlos Zuniga Drifting On A Memorie
I know someone who says “The law in Mexico is a joke, and everyone has a price” so sad to here that. It’s my country, but it is really so corrupt and unfair that I would love to see a real change, from the top.
U right, everyone has a price, but if u change ur way of thinking, dont be like those ones, dont follow the current.
J Adrian Gonzalez
I hope the ones that got fired are the ones that bribed me in the last 10 years, and there’s been a few
Are the transit police involved. Seems to me they are the ones who take the most bribes. I could be wrong.
You need to rephrase your comment. It’s not “take a bribe”, with the Transito it’s “demand a bribe”. When a motorcyclist ran into my stopped car a few weeks ago, the Transito cops threatened to handcuff me and throw me in jail if I didn’t cough up 10,000 pesos. The locals had had enough of those “over the top” demands and forced them to back it down to 1,000.
Here’s hoping…
I think it’s much bigger and deeper than that. (Much more than my knowlegde). What is the official salary for a police officer? What level of skill and education would work for that amount? I think that is a place to start no?
I am actually looking at that, because I know the Mayor when elected said Puerto Vallarta would have some of the highest paid police in Mexico, now we are researching to see if he kept that promise.
That would at least be a start for a change in Vallarta. I HOPE SO!
They make less than $10k a month…
It’s about time they are held to higher standards but let’s see.
It’s about time they are held to higher standards but let’s see.
It’s about time they are held to higher standards but let’s see.
what was their evaluation based on?
Written exams for knowledge of law and procedure, field assessment, HR history (complaints filed and previous disciplinarian actions)
what was their evaluation based on?
Written exams for knowledge of law and procedure, field assessment, HR history (complaints filed and previous disciplinarian actions)
what was their evaluation based on?
Written exams for knowledge of law and procedure, field assessment, HR history (complaints filed and previous disciplinarian actions)
Solo 152
Solo 152
Solo 152
Hahahah what a joke….los putos just work to steal…I could commit a crime and get away with it for 200 pesos…and thats real…
Hahahah what a joke….los putos just work to steal…I could commit a crime and get away with it for 200 pesos…and thats real…
Hahahah what a joke….los putos just work to steal…I could commit a crime and get away with it for 200 pesos…and thats real…
They will probably will be replaced by other corrupted ones, can’t trust any one. Its never what it seems (so sad)
They will probably will be replaced by other corrupted ones, can’t trust any one. Its never what it seems (so sad)
They will probably will be replaced by other corrupted ones, can’t trust any one. Its never what it seems (so sad)