Security & Strategic Review - December 2003

If President Vicente Fox is to be taken at his word, he will be devoting much of the second half of his term to an overhaul of Mexico's legal and policing system, as recommended in a unique study he commissioned from the local delegation of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. This will entail replacing some of the pillars of the current approach to public security, such as the heavy involvement of the military and the central role in federal policing assumed by the chief prosecutor's office, the PGR.