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Cancun Tourist Police Force Needs to Double Officers to Cover Hotel Zone

Cancun’s Tourist Police, currently 95 officers strong, say they need at least double that to properly patrol the Hotel Zone. Recruitment efforts are underway amid corruption concerns.

The director of Cancun's Tourist Police, Ricardo Morales Santos, has revealed that the current force of 95 officers is insufficient to adequately patrol the city's sprawling Hotel Zone, which stretches more than 20 kilometers along the Caribbean coast. According to Morales Santos, the force would need to at least double in size to meet the demands of the growing tourist population and maintain . . .

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