Mexico military police. In monterrey police soldiers and prosecutors have conducted joint patrols which have seen violence reduced. Earlier in the week more than one dozen police officers were massacred in a cartel ambush in western mexico. At all levels policing in mexico tends to maintain separate forces for patrolresponse preventive policing on the one hand and investigative judicial policing on the other.
They were sometimes referred to by the slang term federales or mexican feds by some us. Do you have sandia base new mexico military police reunion information youd like to share relive share the memories of your service time with your brothers sisters in arms today. The mexican armed forces are composed of two independent entities.
The mexican army and the mexican navy. Established in october 2009 we are proud to serve the great state of nm and our country the official page of the 919th mp co. Welcome to the official page of 919th military police company.
Typically agents of the federal police are heavily armed and wear dark blue black or gray combat fatigues. The mexican army includes the mexican air force. Join your unit today join vetfriends to.
Browse military units. According to the military balance published by the international institute for strategic studies the army has 10 active brigades. It was under the authority of the department of security and civil protection.
Police and military are often complicit with drug traffickers she adds in a follow up email. The ambush occurred in the mexican border st. The army and navy are controlled by two separate government departments the national defense secretariat and the.
The special forces are part of the army while the presidential guard and military police fall under the national guard but have their own chain of command. Around 500 members of mexicos national guard military police in helmets and tactical vests blocked the highway on both sides according to a reuters witness and some pursued migrants who fled. One armored two infantry one motorized infantry one airborne one combat engineer three military police the 1st and 2nd plus the 4th mp brigade raised 2015 and the presidential guard brigade the latter includes a reaction group grupo de reaccion inmediata y potente grip whose members are trained in martial arts such as karate aikijutsu.
Huge quantities of drugs flow out of and presumably cash flows into areas where the. The federal police was officially dissolved and absorbed to the national guard a new. Is available for social networking purposes only.
Leaked police body cam footage shows a recent moment in which mexican officers were ambushed by a cartel attack.