Tijuana police force ordered to turn in guns
Calgary123 @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:57 am
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexi ... crime.html
Tijuana police force ordered to turn in guns
Sandra Dibble
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
Friday, January 5, 2007
TIJUANA – The city's entire 2,300-member municipal police force has been ordered to turn in its weapons, leaving doubt Thursday about who would be patrolling this city of more than 1.5 million residents.
The surprise directive from Mexico's Defense Secretariat comes a day after President Felipe Calderon ordered Operation Tijuana, a major offensive against organized crime in the city. More than 3,000 soldiers and federal agents are being sent to the city with the aim of tackling the city's crime problems.
Federal officials were expected to conduct ballistics tests on the weapons, apparently to see if they could link any of the weapons to the many killings that have been attributed to drug cartels.
Dozens of police officers carrying a range of handguns and automatic weapons lined up Thursday at department headquarters on Eighth Street. The Mexican military, which maintains a registry of weapons, routinely checks police weapons, and officers initially thought this was a regular check.
Federal officials have repeatedly said corruption is widespread in Tijuana's department, which is charged with responsible for maintaining public order in the city.
Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon, in a television interview, said that he has ordered the police department to refrain from patrols.
“I can't send them to war without a weapon,” the mayor said.
In the absence of the city officers, the mayor said federal forces will be doing the job of the municipal department.
Tricks @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:00 am
.....Wha?
Calgary123 @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:01 am
WDHIII WDHIII:
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20070104-1921-bn04tjcrime.html
Tijuana police force ordered to turn in guns
Sandra Dibble
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
Friday, January 5, 2007
TIJUANA – The city's entire 2,300-member municipal police force has been ordered to turn in its weapons, leaving doubt Thursday about who would be patrolling this city of more than 1.5 million residents.
The surprise directive from Mexico's Defense Secretariat comes a day after President Felipe Calderon ordered Operation Tijuana, a major offensive against organized crime in the city. More than 3,000 soldiers and federal agents are being sent to the city with the aim of tackling the city's crime problems.
Federal officials were expected to conduct ballistics tests on the weapons, apparently to see if they could link any of the weapons to the many killings that have been attributed to drug cartels.
Dozens of police officers carrying a range of handguns and automatic weapons lined up Thursday at department headquarters on Eighth Street. The Mexican military, which maintains a registry of weapons, routinely checks police weapons, and officers initially thought this was a regular check.
Federal officials have repeatedly said corruption is widespread in Tijuana's department, which is charged with responsible for maintaining public order in the city.
Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon, in a television interview, said that he has ordered the police department to refrain from patrols.
“I can't send them to war without a weapon,” the mayor said.
In the absence of the city officers, the mayor said federal forces will be doing the job of the municipal department.
Tijuana police force ordered to turn in guns
Sandra Dibble
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
Friday, January 5, 2007
TIJUANA – The city's entire 2,300-member municipal police force has been ordered to turn in its weapons, leaving doubt Thursday about who would be patrolling this city of more than 1.5 million residents.
The surprise directive from Mexico's Defense Secretariat comes a day after President Felipe Calderon ordered Operation Tijuana, a major offensive against organized crime in the city. More than 3,000 soldiers and federal agents are being sent to the city with the aim of tackling the city's crime problems.
Federal officials were expected to conduct ballistics tests on the weapons, apparently to see if they could link any of the weapons to the many killings that have been attributed to drug cartels.
Dozens of police officers carrying a range of handguns and automatic weapons lined up Thursday at department headquarters on Eighth Street. The Mexican military, which maintains a registry of weapons, routinely checks police weapons, and officers initially thought this was a regular check.
Federal officials have repeatedly said corruption is widespread in Tijuana's department, which is charged with responsible for maintaining public order in the city.
Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon, in a television interview, said that he has ordered the police department to refrain from patrols.
“I can't send them to war without a weapon,” the mayor said.
In the absence of the city officers, the mayor said federal forces will be doing the job of the municipal department.
Um. couldnt this have just gone into the headlines?
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Sorry... not familiar with that. I don't spend that much time here.
Calgary123 @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:05 am
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20070104-1921-bn04tjcrime.html
Tijuana police force ordered to turn in guns
Sandra Dibble
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
Friday, January 5, 2007
TIJUANA – The city's entire 2,300-member municipal police force has been ordered to turn in its weapons, leaving doubt Thursday about who would be patrolling this city of more than 1.5 million residents.
The surprise directive from Mexico's Defense Secretariat comes a day after President Felipe Calderon ordered Operation Tijuana, a major offensive against organized crime in the city. More than 3,000 soldiers and federal agents are being sent to the city with the aim of tackling the city's crime problems.
Federal officials were expected to conduct ballistics tests on the weapons, apparently to see if they could link any of the weapons to the many killings that have been attributed to drug cartels.
Dozens of police officers carrying a range of handguns and automatic weapons lined up Thursday at department headquarters on Eighth Street. The Mexican military, which maintains a registry of weapons, routinely checks police weapons, and officers initially thought this was a regular check.
Federal officials have repeatedly said corruption is widespread in Tijuana's department, which is charged with responsible for maintaining public order in the city.
Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon, in a television interview, said that he has ordered the police department to refrain from patrols.
“I can't send them to war without a weapon,” the mayor said.
In the absence of the city officers, the mayor said federal forces will be doing the job of the municipal department.
Tijuana police force ordered to turn in guns
Sandra Dibble
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
Friday, January 5, 2007
TIJUANA – The city's entire 2,300-member municipal police force has been ordered to turn in its weapons, leaving doubt Thursday about who would be patrolling this city of more than 1.5 million residents.
The surprise directive from Mexico's Defense Secretariat comes a day after President Felipe Calderon ordered Operation Tijuana, a major offensive against organized crime in the city. More than 3,000 soldiers and federal agents are being sent to the city with the aim of tackling the city's crime problems.
Federal officials were expected to conduct ballistics tests on the weapons, apparently to see if they could link any of the weapons to the many killings that have been attributed to drug cartels.
Dozens of police officers carrying a range of handguns and automatic weapons lined up Thursday at department headquarters on Eighth Street. The Mexican military, which maintains a registry of weapons, routinely checks police weapons, and officers initially thought this was a regular check.
Federal officials have repeatedly said corruption is widespread in Tijuana's department, which is charged with responsible for maintaining public order in the city.
Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon, in a television interview, said that he has ordered the police department to refrain from patrols.
“I can't send them to war without a weapon,” the mayor said.
In the absence of the city officers, the mayor said federal forces will be doing the job of the municipal department.
Um. couldnt this have just gone into the headlines?
Sorry... not familiar with that. I don't spend that much time here.
Front page - "SUBMIT NEWS"
Thanks.
BartSimpson @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:16 am
This says volumes about Mexico when their police can't even be trusted by their own government. 
Almighty1 @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:30 am
The whole place is rife with corrupt cops. I have had fortune and misfortune with a few Mexican police officers on several different occasions, in a few different locales. Cancun in particlular, being all touristy, is a haven for criminally inspired cops. You can buy weed from one and the next will bust you for having it. The cab drivers are part of this crappy game as well-operating as their agents in this exchange. Other times I've had to buy myself out of imminent hot water in Tijuana, Cancun, and Mexico City, for things like jaywalking, and illegal parking-to which I am sure they pocketed the cash.
Gives me a way better appreciation of "our finest" every time I return home.
Calgary123 @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:31 am
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
This says volumes about Mexico when their police can't even be trusted by their own government.
Indeed. Supposed to be one of the most corrupt in the world... along with countries such as Russia, which to this day still shakes down people driving down the road for money. The "ticket" only saves the poor sap from a walk down to the police station, or gawd knows wherever else you might end up... in a dark alley, or laying dead in a ditch.
ridenrain @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:24 pm
Anything to do with this?
Nope. Nevermnd.
Tijuana is closer to San Diago instead.
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Guardsmen overrun at the Border
12 News
Jan. 4, 2007 02:44 PM
National Guard unit stormed while patroling the border
Border attack raises security concerns
A U.S. Border Patrol entry Identification Team site was overrun Wednesday night along Arizona's border with Mexico.
According to the Border Patrol, an unknown number of gunmen attacked the site in the state's West Desert Region around 11 p.m. The site is manned by National Guardsmen. Those guardsmen were forced to retreat.
The Border Patrol will not say whether shots were fired. However, no Guardsmen were injured in the incident.
The Border Patrol says the incident occurred somewhere along the 120 mile section of the border between Nogales and Lukeville. The area is known as a drug corridor. Last year, 124-thousand pounds of illegal drugs were confiscated in this area.
The Border patrol says the attackers quickly retreated back into Mexico.
source
12 News
Jan. 4, 2007 02:44 PM
National Guard unit stormed while patroling the border
Border attack raises security concerns
A U.S. Border Patrol entry Identification Team site was overrun Wednesday night along Arizona's border with Mexico.
According to the Border Patrol, an unknown number of gunmen attacked the site in the state's West Desert Region around 11 p.m. The site is manned by National Guardsmen. Those guardsmen were forced to retreat.
The Border Patrol will not say whether shots were fired. However, no Guardsmen were injured in the incident.
The Border Patrol says the incident occurred somewhere along the 120 mile section of the border between Nogales and Lukeville. The area is known as a drug corridor. Last year, 124-thousand pounds of illegal drugs were confiscated in this area.
The Border patrol says the attackers quickly retreated back into Mexico.
tritium @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:41 pm
I am glad to see President Felipe Calderon taking a step forward to stamp out the local drug lords in TJ.
When your police force has to wear bullet proof jackets and patrol in teams of 4 out 5 then you know the city gone to hell.
However, if you ask me, corruption is the way of life in TJ, being so close to the border. Drugs, illegals, arms, human trafficking (under age prostitutes) and so on, are always being smuggled across the border into the USA.
I have been there many, many times.
I think the country would have been much better off if the corrupt Calderon did not get into power and Andrés Manuel López Obrador was now President.
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Mexican police detain 4 Iraqis in border city of Tijuana
ziggy @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:49 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
This says volumes about Mexico when their police can't even be trusted by their own government.
My sister used to date a Mexican cop in Mazatlan,lots of them couldnt even account for their issued firearm as they had sold it or hocked it for something.
Some of the things he told me sounded like something out of a movie,from planting pot seed under a drivers seat while stopped at a fruit inspection station to selling weed.
Bribes are a way of life in Mexico.
Why do they pack semi auto's at those "fruit" inspection stations?
tritium @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:34 pm
ziggy ziggy:
Why do they pack semi auto's at those "fruit" inspection stations?
Because the bad guys carry semi-autos, ya think.
The cops don't pawn their weapons, you're ignorant.
However, they are required to buy their own ammo.
Mexico is rich in culture and history. It's a great country if you are away from the border towns. Then again I guess that is the same for any country, look at Windsor, Ontario.
Ripcat @ Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:25 pm
It's all good for Canada's pot growing business.....