Law enforcement in Mexico City
Law enforcement in Mexico City is provided by two primary agencies; the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City (Secretaría de Seguridad ciudadana de la ciudad de México), who provides uniformed or preventative police, and the Office of the Attorney General of Mexico City (Fiscalía General de Justicia de la Ciudad de México) who provides plainclothes detectives and crime lab services. Secretariat of Citizen Security The Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City (; SSC) is the uniformed law enforcement agency of Mexico City, headquartered in Venustiano Carranza. It manages a combined force of over 100,000 officers in Mexico City. The Mexico City Police (Policía Ciudad de México) is the police department of Mexico City. Mexico City contains the seat of the federal Mexican government. There are 8.84 million residents of the city, according to 2009 estimates, and another 21.1 million people in the metropolitan region. The SSC is charged with maintaining public order and safety in the center of Mexico City where public insecurity and crime rates are the highest in the nation. As a result, there have been concurrent efforts to increase accountability and improve police effectiveness. Beginning in 1996, authorities began a dramatic restructuring of the SSC, which included replacing major officials with army officers. Recently, the most recent high-profile effort has been Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s announcement in 2002 that the city would contract former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as a consultant to the SSC. The SSC also regulates the huge private security industry in the city and operates the Animal Control Unit (Brigada de Vigiliancia Animal). Organization Mexico City has a large uniformed "preventive police" force of approximately 34,000 officers, not to mention 40,000 auxiliary police and 15,000 banking police. These nearly 90,000 officers work for the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City (Secretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana – SSC CDMX). In 2011, the SSP had a budget of about $106 billion pesos (an increase from the previous year's $89 billion pesos). Command and Staff The organizational structure and holders of area Public Safety Department are: Secretary of Public Safety (Secretario de Seguridad Pública): Jesús Orto Martínez Undersecretary Traffic Control (Subsecretaría de Control de Tránsito): Alejandro Martinez Fernando Badillo Undersecretary of Police Operation (Subsecretaría de Operación Policial): Luis Rosales Gamboa Undersecretary for Police Intelligence Information (Subsecretaría de Información de Inteligencia Policial): Juan Carlos Contreras Licona Undersecretary for Institutional Development(Subsecretaría de Desarrollo Institucional): Luis Alfredo Hernández Velázquez Undersecretary for Public Participation and Crime Prevention (Subsecretaría de Participación Ciudadana y Prevención del Delito): Yolanda García Cornejo Preventive Police The 34,000 strong Preventive Police are the uniformed police of Mexico City. They are organized into seven major divisions. as follows: Proximity Police (Unidades de Policía de Proximidad) formerly the Citizens Protection (Unidades de Protección Ciudadana) and before that Sector Police (Policía Sectoral) - The 17,000 plus blue uniformed Proximity Police is the largest division and provides community policing services throughout Mexico City. The Proximity Police consists of slightly less than half of the total Preventive