17/05/2011. Forty-eight percent of the highest state security and law enforcement officials in the country have not undergone the confidence control examinations, disregarding the National Agreement for Security, Justice and Legality signed in 2008, said Juan Miguel Alcántara Soria, executive secretary of the National Public Security System.
According to the secretariat's statistics, of 376 senior officials, only 198 (52.6 percent) have participated in polygraph, anti-doping, capacity interviews and patrimonial evaluation, among others.
The federal official stressed that the only entity that has evaluated all of its commanders is Nuevo León.
Those who have not evaluated most or all of their bosses are Baja California Sur, Guerrero, State of Mexico, Nayarit, Sonora and Yucatan. Even some have not notified their staff relationship.
While the entities that have requested all or most of the evaluations are Baja California, Chihuahua, Michoacán and Quintana Roo.
But those who have evaluated most of their high commands are: Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Coahuila, Colima, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz and Zacatecas.
Federal authorities consulted on the subject reported that the National Center for Certification and Accreditation does not yet have the results of the exams, since they continue to be practiced, so it is expected that within two to three weeks the names of the officials who passed and failed the trust controls will be announced.
The figures
During a message at the official residence of Los Pinos, the executive secretary said that on April 1, the state leaders and the head of government of Mexico City were reminded of the obligation to evaluate the high commands.
A little more than a month after the application was made, the results are as follows: 198 senior managers evaluated, representing 52.6 percent. 35 are scheduled, representing an additional 9.3 percent and there are 52 whose evaluations are requested and represent 13.8 percent.
Alcántara Soria said that 68 evaluations of senior commanders are pending, while 19 were not presented on the scheduled date.
By position, the figures are: of the 29 secretaries of Public Security, 17 have been evaluated; of the 32 attorneys general, only 22, and of the 32 secretaries of government, only eight.
Of the 24 executive secretaries, 13 have been evaluated; of the 159 deputy prosecutors or deputy prosecutors, only 92; of the 50 Undersecretaries of Public Security, 21; of the 25 registered preventive police officers, only nine, and of the 25 registered ministerial police officers, only 16.
The evaluations are carried out by the Trust Control Centers of the Attorney General's Office, the Ministry of National Defense, the Federal Secretariat of Public Security and the Center for Investigation and National Security.
Cases
In May 2009, the Secretary of Public Security of Morelos, Luis Ángel Cabeza de Vaca, submitted his resignation after several incidents of violence that occurred in the state; however, the PGR arrested and imprisoned him for alleged ties to the Beltran Leyva cartel.
Another case occurred in March of this year, when Hidalgo's director of public security, Leodegario Osorio, and deputy director Sergio Hernández were arrested for alleged ties to drug traffickers.
Just last Thursday, the Attorney General of Guanajuato, Carlos Zamarripa Aguirre, announced the arrest of nine elements of the Public Security Directorate of Coroneo and 17 of Jerécuaro, including the heads of these corporations, for their relationship with La Familia.
Source: milenio.com
