Mexico pledges anti-crime measures amid police killings, abductions

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Aug 22, 2008, 4:43 GMT

Mexico City - Mexico's government pledged to establish anti-kidnapping measures in cooperation with local authorities in an attempt to stem a crime wave engulfing the country. After meeting with the country's provincial governors, top judges, mayors and lawmakers, President Felipe Calderon on Thursday signed an agreement to coordinate crime fighting across the nation on a day in which seven police officers were killed in Mexico. He pledged to pass legislation against money laundering and provisions to locate the mobile phones of kidnapping suspects. He also promised to keep the public better informed about anti-crime measures and scour police ranks for renegade officers. Kidnappings in particular have been on the rise in Mexico, Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna said. In 2002, 504 cases where registered, but the number jumped to 785 in 2007. According to unofficial estimates, however, that number is believed to be significantly higher. Kidnappings and blackmail are often organized out of Mexico's prisons, Garcia Luna said. There have also been a number of reports of police involvements in kidnap-killings. Mexicans took to the streets after kidnappers in police uniforms snatched a 14-year-old boy in Mexico City and killed him this summer. It later became known that a police detective was involved in the plot.

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These people are too much of a problem.Aug 22nd, 2008 - 22:27:49

Legal Immagration is what our Country is all about, Not free loaders you go into do your wash and you sit there in total amazement there they are with 30 kids jumping in and out of machienes. Its disgusting and dangarous

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To above..Aug 22nd, 2008 - 22:36:58

And what about doing their wash one a week instead of once a year????????

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GuysAug 22nd, 2008 - 22:43:09

You are right, Dont let it bother you theirs too much money being lost by their mooching action will be on the horizon by Washington soon......... After all we canot afford them anymore.

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But I want my free hand outs.Aug 22nd, 2008 - 22:50:28

Folks are finally realizeing the amount of revanue that is being lost. It took long enough but I knew it would happen.................

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