++ President Felipe Calderón announced that he would submit a constitutional reform proposal during the next congressional period to create a new police system based on 32 state police forces under a single command.
As he inaugurated the 28th session of the National Public Security Council, Calderón said the rule of law is an indispensable condition to transform Mexico into a safe, modern and developed nation. The National Public Security Council approved the proposal to create 32 state police forces under a single command that would coordinate efforts with the federal police.
++ Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna said that three of every five police agents in Mexico earn up to four thousand pesos in monthly income and 68.3 percent only completed primary and secondary school. Just 4.5 percent went on to higher levels in the education system.
++ Nuevo León Governor Rodrigo Medina, who heads the Conago Public Security Committee, said that the proposal to establish a single command police force would not immediately resolve the insecurity crisis in Mexico.
++ The Supreme Court ruled that former IMSS chief Juan Molinar Horcasitas, current chief Daniel Karam, and the former governor of Sonora, Eduardo Bours, are responsible for the fire that killed 49 children at the ABC day care center in Hermosillo. Presidente Calderón decreed that as of this Saturday, June 5 would be a National Day of Mourning in memory of 49 children who were killed in 2009 in a fire at the ABC day care center in Hermosillo, Sonora.
++ The Quintana Roo Electoral Institute invalidated Gregorio Sánchez’s candidacy for governor in the state… Sánchez is being held at the El Rincón penitentiary in Tepic, Nayarit, accused of narcotics trafficking and money laundering… The electoral institute ordered the PRD, PT and Convergencia alliance to find a substitute for Sánchez by June 11.
++ From July 6 to August 6, INEGI is set to conduct a survey on insecurity, to assess and redesign public policies in security and criminal justice issues.
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