An Approach to the Mexican Municipal Preventive Police: The Municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco

Abstract

In Mexico, public security is provided by the central government, states and municipalities, within their respective spheres of competence, resulting in a decentralized police model, under which a little more than 38% of state force is represented by the municipal police custody. While recently the survey results Justiciabarómetro, conducted in the six municipalities of the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, account for a situation marked by helplessness among the soldiers responsible for ensuring public safety; weakness shared by their peers from the police forces of the country which can be illustrated by the case of the municipality of Tlajomulco de Zuniga.