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Security & Strategic Review: January 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)
POINTERS
MEXICO-US | Praise for shift of control in
Juárez. The US ambassador Carlos Pascual has publicly congratulated the
Mexican government on its “intelligent" decision to shift leadership of the
anti-cartel drive in Ciudad Juárez from the army to the police. In an interview
with the news agency Notimex on 24 January, he commended the decision
to put the federal police - which has all the legal powers to do the job - in
charge, noting that while the military could patrol, it lacked the legal
authority to intervene, collect evidence or introduce evidence into legal
proceedings. He pointed out that this had resulted in confrontations with drug
traffickers who were killed, escaped or were taken to military bases to obtain
confessions or information which could not be used in trial. 'The number of
arrests rose,' he said, 'but the number of cases tried did not.' In his view the
military patrols could play a preventive role, but should not be 'the first line
of the strategy'.
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