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Wed Oct 6, 10:47 pm ET

AP - Mexican President Felipe Calderon has sent lawmakers a proposal to abolish Mexico's notoriously corrupt and ineffective municipal police forces.

Under the initiative, each of Mexico's 31 states would have just one police department under the command of the governor.

Calderon raised the idea months ago and formally submitted it to the Senate on Wednesday. He says the goal is to reduce corruption by eliminating hundreds of small police departments whose officers are poorly educated and badly paid.

Mexico has more than 2,000 local and state police departments. Many have been infiltrated by powerful drug cartels. And in some small towns, entire forces have quit after coming under attack by gangs that easily outgun them.



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I think this is a good move if they follow through with the screening and then provide the better pay / benefits. Middle to upper management positions will get moved around (to other municipalities). The ongoing change in faces helps break up some of the old corruption chain of command mafias that exist in most municipal police departments today throughout Latin America.

I hope they go through with it...

Rember years ago the Kansas city police force was so corrupt they disbaned it and called the new police force the Kansas city State police.

Originally Posted by J.P.

Rember years ago the Kansas city police force was so corrupt they disbaned it and called the new police force the Kansas city State police.

Did it work?

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Thank goodness they're not corrupt like Mexico.

dont know if it worked I do know all the police cars there were marked kansas city state police for several years after.