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5th August 2011, 07:27
FYI:
All 26 Mexican police officers in a Mexican town have handed in their resignations as well as their weapons in fear after two policemen were killed in an attack.
Authorities in Ascension, in the northern state of Chihuahua, had requested back-up from the Mexican state and federal governments as well as the Army, to bring back law and order, disturbed by drug-traffickers and lords, to the town, dpa quoted Ascension Mayor Jaime Dominguez Loya as saying on Thursday.
In September, Ascension's then-mayor Rafael Lorenzo sacked 12 officers on accusations of poor performance, leaving the town without police, when the local public opinion had requested the move, after an angry mob lynched two alleged kidnappers.
Mexico has long been plagued by drug-related crime. Yet the violence has boomed since the government launched a military crackdown on organized crime in 2006.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has deployed some 50,000 troops across Mexico to combat the drug gangs. He has also recently announced that four additional battalions will also be deployed to the northeast of the country in a near future.
Drug violence and organized crime have killed more than 40,000 people in Mexico over the past four years since the president deployed security forces to the streets to fight powerful cartels.
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192416.html
All 26 Mexican police officers in a Mexican town have handed in their resignations as well as their weapons in fear after two policemen were killed in an attack.
Authorities in Ascension, in the northern state of Chihuahua, had requested back-up from the Mexican state and federal governments as well as the Army, to bring back law and order, disturbed by drug-traffickers and lords, to the town, dpa quoted Ascension Mayor Jaime Dominguez Loya as saying on Thursday.
In September, Ascension's then-mayor Rafael Lorenzo sacked 12 officers on accusations of poor performance, leaving the town without police, when the local public opinion had requested the move, after an angry mob lynched two alleged kidnappers.
Mexico has long been plagued by drug-related crime. Yet the violence has boomed since the government launched a military crackdown on organized crime in 2006.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has deployed some 50,000 troops across Mexico to combat the drug gangs. He has also recently announced that four additional battalions will also be deployed to the northeast of the country in a near future.
Drug violence and organized crime have killed more than 40,000 people in Mexico over the past four years since the president deployed security forces to the streets to fight powerful cartels.
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192416.html