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AMLO’s Top Cop Backtracks on New Border Police Force in Mexico

  • Durazo amends plan to limit new force to tourist areas
  • New cops to patrol Cancun, Los Cabos, Acapulco as crime soars
A Federal Police officer patrols a beach in Cancun, Mexico.
A Federal Police officer patrols a beach in Cancun, Mexico.Photographer: Brett Gundlock/Bloomberg

Mexico’s incoming head of public security, Alfonso Durazo, said he is modifying the strategy he supplied in the past about plans to create a border police and instead will form a special force in tourism spots like Cancun hit by high crime.

Durazo told Bloomberg News about the correction after Mexican non-profits criticized the plan for a police force on Mexico’s southern and northern borders, saying it would cause an increase in human-rights violations.