SECURITY| AICM police officers replaced. On 19 August Mexico’s federal public security secretariat (SSPF) announced that 348 federal police officers who had been stationed at Mexico City’s international airport (AICM) have been replaced and reassigned to other posts. A SSPF statement said that in an attempt to “strengthen” the airport’s security, “the federal police has carried out a comprehensive rotation of the personnel who were stationed” at the AICM. The announcement comes two months after an operation to arrest three rogue federal police officers resulted in a shootout inside the AICM, in which three federal police officers seeking to arrest their comrades were killed. The three rogue police officers are believed to have been working for drug trafficking organisations, allowing them to use the AICM as a transit point to traffic drugs; two of the officers, identified as Daniel Cruz García and Zeferino Morales Franco, are still at large. The SSPF statement added that a MS$5m (US$380,000) reward was still available to anyone who provides information that leads to their arrests.
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