translated from Spanish: Durazo discarded increase for security

budget at the moment the budget for security may not be increased in the country, although Mexico suffers a national emergency in that area, said Alfonso Durazo, who Andrés Manuel López Obrador appointed for be the next Secretary of public safety.
In a speech after receiving the conclusions of seven workshops on ‘Dialogue on security and police development’, warned that if well broke the forums that were scheduled for the coming days in five States of the Republic, the same it will meet the victims in these entities to hear their proposals.
Durazo said that, among other measures, in Mexico it should first be strengthened to the municipal police forces (such as the concluded one of the working groups), although this requires financial resources.
The budget of 0.8 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) earmarked for security is insufficient, and it should at least triple, but clarified that, for the moment, it is impossible to increase those numbers, the challenges in the field of poverty and social inequality.
The future public security Secretary accepted the proposal of a table, in the sense of not only certify the policemen individually, but to the police as a whole institutions, because it must be more efficient processes.
At the time, María Elena Morera, President of common cause, one of the organizations that prepared this forum, warned that the future Government has been until now ambiguous in his speeches on the matter, while it has pointed out that it is one of their priorities.
He raised the need for increased budgets, and that public safety be taken as a matter of State, above the political agendas of individual, because in Mexico three thousand murders occur per month, there are 33 thousand disappeared and this year have been killed 300 Police, which gives an indication of the extent of the problem.
The theme, he said, should be discussed with humility, reason and will, so claimed to be listen to victims.
During the seven thematic tables, in which analyzed is basically police issues, intelligence and transparency, there was agreement on the need to reform the constitutional 123 article, to give certainty to the employment relationship of the police, standardize police controls and wages throughout the country, and increase the welfare of the soldiers of the three levels of Government.
In the same way, arose the need to repeal the Internal Security Act and adapt the schemes of intelligence to make it more effective, rescuing and even expanding the platform Mexico, without neglecting accountability, involving schemes of the society.
At the end of the meeting and in separate interviews, both Alfonso Durazo and María Elena Morera disagreed regarding the cancellation of the forums in Sinaloa, Tabasco, Morelos, Tamaulipas and Veracruz.
While the future Government representative said that the decision was made for logistical reasons and considered that there will be no affectation, he will personally hear the victims in each of those States, Morera said that it should reconsider the decision, as victims who were going to go to the forums now will be revictimizadas before the cancellation of such events.

Original source in Spanish

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