05/05/2011. The state of Mexico is the third entity in the country that has more police, whether from public or private corporations, per thousand inhabitants. The first place is held by the Federal District and then Baja California Sur.
This can be consulted in the information of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), an instance that carries out this data crossing based on the preliminary results of the 2010 Population Census carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI).
In such a way that the state of Mexico with a population of 15 million 174 thousand 272 inhabitants and has 4.48 police officers per thousand people.
While Baja California Sur with 637 thousand inhabitants has 5.56 security elements per thousand people and the Federal District with a population of 8 million 873 thousand 17 inhabitants has 10.25 uniformed for every thousand capital.
The Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System does not specify the percentage of public and private corporations in each state.
However, he points out that at the national level private security companies represent 13 percent of the police forces.
It also reveals that in Mexico 34 percent of the police are of the municipal order, 40 belong to state corporations, six percent are custodians and seven percent ministerial police.
In total there are 490,896 police officers in Mexico, according to information from the SESNSP.
Source: eluniversaledomex.mx
