On 7 August former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani delivered his 46 recommendations to improve security in Mexico city, a task he had been especially commissioned to do, towards the end of last year, by the city government's secretary of public security, Marcelo Ebrard.
The Giuliani plan is not a direct transplant of his own `zero tolerance' drive in New York. His observations on the ground convinced him quite early on that local circumstances required a specifically tailored approach. The starting point is to simplify the proliferation of police forces operating in the city (reducing them from the current seven to perhaps only two).
It also includes a major overhaul of the judiciary, in order to speed up trials, do away with corruption and impunity and promote a `culture of legality' among the citizens. This last point will be sought with the parallel contribution of the former mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando, who has also been retained by Ebrard to bring to Mexico city the approach he used so successfully against the Sicilian mafia. For now the aims are modest: a 10% reduction of the crime rate, with the first real results visible in four years' time.
Giuliani plan: full analysis in our forthcoming Mexico & Nafta Regional Report (RM-03-08).
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