In a small ceremony, Mayor Renán Barrera Concha presented Mérida police with 50 wearable body cameras. The number of cameras is tiny, however, compared to the number of municipal police on the force. Merida’s municipal police employs 405 operatives and in 2020 had a budget of nearly 11 million pesos. The cameras are to be used…
Mexico’s National Guard has confirmed that four of its agents have been apprehended for traveling in a vehicle transporting marijuana. The agents were allegedly found out when they were subjected to an inspection upon arrival in Yucatán from Campeche. The agency has condemned the alleged actions and said that it has already begun investigating the…
Police in Mérida were placed on high alert after being notified that a dead body had been found wrapped in plastic bags. However, what authorities found was much less macabre, an inflatable sex doll. The area was cordoned off and authorities deployed a large team which included a helicopter, investigative agents and forensic analysts to the…
Yucatán is enforcing its overnight curfew by hitting drivers in the wallet. It didn’t take long for police to collect fines from offenders. The first night new fines were put in place, state police assembled checkpoints across the state. By early Saturday, 60 drivers were assessed a penalty between 3,000 and 5,000 pesos for driving…
Military officials found a drug-smugglers’ plane ablaze on a jungle road after it made an illegal landing when military aircraft started following it. The twin-engine jet, which is suspected of carrying hundreds of kilos of drugs, was discovered on the Carrillo-Mérida road in Quintana Roo. The Defense Department said the plane had arrived from South America…
The Progreso police officer assassinated during a knife attack was fired by state police in 2011 after he was charged with gang robbery in his native Hunucmá, an archived SSP press release revealed. Luis Manuel Pacheco Chuc was 32 years old when he and two others held up a 76-year-old mototaxi operator and took his…
Progreso, Yucatan — A municipal police officer died early Wednesday morning after being stabbed while working in his surveillance booth. The attack occurred around 2 a.m. when a group of unidentified subjects arrived at the Directorate of Public Security and Traffic Surveillance booth No. 15, on Calle 37 at Calle 112 in the Vicente Guerrero neighborhood….
Travel through Yucatan gets only more difficult after health officials announced the state’s first two coronavirus deaths on Friday. Residents in Ciudad Caucel and Fracc. Las Americas reported had to talk their way past a police checkpoint to enter or leave. Delivery trucks and health workers are allowed to pass, but motorists are quizzed about…
Merida, Yucatan — Three protestors were arrested and three policemen were suspended for using tear gas against the crowd on Sunday. An anti-taxation march aimed at the governor became violent when demonstrators tore down a police barrier in the hotel zone. Authorities said that the use of tear gas was not authorized and that the…
Motul, Yucatan — In a large counter-narcotics operation with heavily armed personnel, a private home was searched in the San Roque neighborhood. Two suspects accused of drug trafficking were arrested. Police seized from 25 to 30 weapons, including shotguns and squad-type pistols, as well as more than five kilograms of drugs, between marijuana and cocaine….
Accused of misusing public resources, a Tekax police commander has lost his job.
Two motorcycle cops, who were apparently stopping motorists between Hunucma and Sisal, have been fired and charged with extortion.
Although there are vacancies in the municipal police department, hiring police officers is “quite difficult,” said Chief Mario Arturo Romero Escalante.
State police used a helicopter Wednesday in a search-and-rescue operation when two Canadians and an Australian were stranded in a nature preserve.
Commander Mario Arturo Romero Escalante credited intense police vigilance as he reported a drop in graffiti in the Centro Histórico.
Mario Alejandro Estrella Ku must have thought he was out nearly 3,000 pesos for good when he lost his wallet at Calle 59 by 56.
Eleven municipal police concluded a basic-English course taught in coordination with the Directorate of Economic Promotion and Tourism.
Municipal police broke their silence and accused the municipal administration of withholding much-needed pay raises for three years.
Municipal police have been handed keys to two more electric patrols cars, built for economy, the ecology and agility.
Militarized authorities in camouflage were in full force Wednesday, not to seize drugs or arms, but apparently counterfeited “Gorditos Yucatecos.”
The state’s 4,000 police officers are getting 50-percent raises, and the attorney general’s office is getting an infusion of new personnel.
The state attorney general today formally recognized a group of 60 forensic scientists and police officers who completed a training course in Crime Scene Investigation, a U.S.-Mexico collaboration under the Mérida Initiative.
For 20 municipal police officers, summer means continuing to improve their English-language skills.
Summer holiday season has begun, and the municipal police have made a priority of keeping visitors safe.
That’s all for now
That’s all for now