translated from Spanish: Federal police protest over Integration to the Guard

Elements of the Federal Police are manifested in various bases to demand adequate treatment and incorporation to the National Guard.
Since last night, the police officers were located in the facilities located in peripheral ring almost at the junction with Axis 5 South, in the colony Federal Area Telephony Complex, in protest of its change to the National Guard without liquidation and in demand for support.
A group of police officers perform a blockade on the Mexico-Pachuca highway, in both directions of the road, at the height of kilometer 11, near the base of the corporation located in San Juanico. They only allow the passage of ambulances and emergency vehicles.
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They point out that they have been canceled an operability bonus which is an extra payment to the items deployed in the field. Senior officials informed them that the elements have the right to resign if they do not agree with the new working conditions.
Under the slogan “police yes, military no” and between pushing elements they demanded the operational coordinator of the National Guard, Patricia Trujillo who does not understand the reality that the elements live.
Trujillo promised the police to speak with the Secretary of Security, Alfonso Durazo, to resolve the situation.
“I’m not moving out of here until it’s resolved to the last point of the request specification that my colleagues are presenting,” he said.
“They’ve always been top people and they’ll always stay.”
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The elements of the corporation are also manifested in various states of the country by the conditions in which they are asked to give up their seniority to cause discharge in the National Guard, in addition to being provided with deciduous and poor quality equipment.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador rejected the need stake of the Federal Police, the Army and other corporations to be pressured to go to the National Guard, assured that anyone who wishes him of his own free will can be incorporated.
He said those who join will keep their pay and benefits, including bonuses. He pointed out that it is a lie that the perceptions of those who switched corporations were reduced.
“Telling the Federal Police that no one is going to be fired, that they are going to have the same salaries, their same benefits, that no one is going to be forced to move to another corporation,” the representative said during his morning conference.
López Obrador noted that she understands the resistance to change but “the truth is that she was spoiled by that corporation (Federal Police).”
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Original source in Spanish