“Creating the Nationwide Guard was a hit,” says AMLO

Mexico Metropolis. Within the framework of the fifth anniversary of the Nationwide Guard, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asserted that “it was a hit” to have created this company and referred to as on its officers and commanders to not fall into temptations and to keep up it as an incorruptible company.

“The Nationwide Guard should be an instance of honesty, an incorruptible company in order that peace and safety within the nation can proceed to be assured,” he emphasised earlier than high-ranking army and naval officers and troops from the Guard itself, in addition to members of his cupboard.

In a ceremony held at Campo Marte, framed by an illustration of the army self-discipline that has been imposed on the personnel of the Nationwide Guard, the president insisted that the causes that generate violence should be addressed with a view to obtain the safety that Mexicans demand.

With out mentioning his want to include the Nationwide Guard into the construction of the Nationwide Protection Secretariat (Sedena) (which was proposed within the constitutional reform initiative he despatched to Congress final February), the top of the Government highlighted the work of this police drive within the battle towards crime.

On this regard, he confused that in his six-year time period there was progress in combating violence, though “not as a lot as we wish, however it’s a slightly aggravated evil, as a result of it has been left unattended for a very long time,” he stated.

He added: “Thankfully, there shall be continuity with change, the transformation will proceed and this shall be consolidated as a technique to ensure peace. The motto of the Nationwide Guard is: justice and peace, as a result of peace is the fruit of justice, and we’re making progress in that, as there’s a lower within the incidence of crime in all crimes, the exception being extortion.”

López Obrador confused that together with the constitutional reform that gave rise to the Nationwide Guard 5 years in the past, the Structure was additionally modified in order that the Ministries of Nationwide Protection and the Navy can take part in public safety duties.

This was, he stated, a big step, as a result of the dangerous insurance policies of earlier administrations worsened the insecurity within the nation, and addressing this abuse “was a precedence. That’s the reason the reform to the Structure allowed the Navy and the Protection to take part in public safety duties, this was an important achievement. Since then, 5 years in the past, now we have had these two vital establishments which have a practice of self-discipline, professionalism and are two elementary pillars of the nationwide State.”

He assured that 75 p.c of Mexicans have faith within the Nationwide Guard.

For his half, the commander of the Nationwide Guard, Main Basic David Córvoba Campos, stated that the company already has 130 thousand troops, of which 80 p.c carry out operational features.

5 years after its creation, the Guard has an organizational construction of 32 state and 266 regional coordinations, by which 52 battalion-type items, 551 Nationwide Guard corporations and 291 communication route sections are deployed.

“Our huge deployment has allowed us to hold out numerous duties, such because the plan to help society in emergency circumstances, which has been carried out on 1,282 events utilizing 41,288 personnel; our presence all through the nation has allowed us to effectively perform the substantive missions assigned, acquiring excellent outcomes such because the arrest of round 37,000 folks linked to organized crime, the seizure of greater than 11,000 weapons, greater than 11.5 million cartridges, 450 kilos of opium gum, 500 of fentanyl, amongst others,” he stated.