Security & Strategic Review - May 2023

In a bulletin released on 27 March, Mexico’s association of private security companies (AMESP), an industry association, announced that Mexico’s private security sector was the largest in Latin America. This comes as the use of private security firms, particularly in facilities run by government-affiliated entities, is under scrutiny following a deadly fire at a national migration institute (INM) centre at the end of March, where a private firm had been contracted to provide security services.