Federal Police (Mexico)

Former Mexican federal police

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Law enforcement agency

Federal Police
Policía Federal
1999–2019

Abbreviation| PF
Agency overview
Formed| May 30, 2009 (from Federal Preventive Police)
Preceding agencies|

* 3rd Military Police Brigade, Mexican Army
* Mexican Federal Highway Patrol
* Mexican Federal Attorney Police
* CISEN Counter-Intelligence Unit

Dissolved| October 1, 2019
Superseding agency|  National Guard
Employees| \+ 40,000 (at disbandment)
Annual budget| US$34.6 billion (2010)
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency| Mexico
Operations jurisdiction| Mexico
Governing body| Secretariat of Security and Civilian Protection
General nature|

* Federal law enforcement
* Civilian police

Notables
Anniversary|

* Federal Police Day, June 2[1]

The Federal Police (Spanish: Policía Federal, PF), formerly known as the Federal Preventive Police (Policía Federal Preventiva) and sometimes referred to in the U.S. as "Federales",[2] was a Mexican national police force formed in 1999. In 2019, it was incorporated into the National Guard and operated under the authority of the Department of Security and Civil Protection.

The Federal Police was formed through the merger of four previously independent federal police agencies — the Federal Highway Police, the Fiscal Police, the Investigation and National Security Center, and the Mexican Army's 3rd Military Police Brigade — and was initially referred to as the Federal Preventive Police. Throughout its 20-year existence, the Federal Police was dogged by allegations of widespread corruption and abuse allegations which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said influenced his administration's decision to disband the force.[3] Since its disbandment, two high-ranking commanders have been arrested for offences they committed while leading the Federal Police.[3][4] The police force was 1,870,406,000 pesos in debt to creditors, members of the public, and former employees when it was disbanded.[5]

## History

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Mexico City Federal Police Building.

On May 29, 2009, the Federal Preventive Police name was changed to Federal Police, and some duties were added to it. The Federal Police was created as the main Federal Preventive Police in 1999 by the initiative of President Ernesto Zedillo (1994–2000) to prevent, combat, and enforce the law that drugs should not circulate on Mexico's streets. The PF has been assuming its authority in stages over time, as its budget has grown and it has combined and reorganized police departments from major agencies such as those for migration, treasury, and highways. Many large bus stations and airports in Mexico are assigned a PF detachment.

Public Safety Secretary Genaro García Luna hoped to reform the nation's long-troubled police. Among other steps, he consolidated several agencies into a Federal Police force of nearly 25,000.[6] The Federal Police celebrates its anniversary on July 13 every year (Federal Police Day), with its history dating to 1928 as the successor of the agencies mentioned above.

### Mexican Federal Preventive Police

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Law enforcement agency

Mexican Federal Preventive Police
Policía Federal Preventiva de Mexico

Abbreviation| PFP
Agency overview
Formed| January 1, 1999
Preceding agency|

* Mexican Federal Highway Patrol

Dissolved| May 30, 2009
Superseding agency| Mexico Federal Police
Employees| 50,000-100,000
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency| Mexico
Operations jurisdiction| Mexico
General nature|

* Federal law enforcement

Operational structure
Headquarters| CDMX, Mexico

The Mexican Federal Preventive Police was an agency created by the Mexican Highway Patrol in 1999. It was replaced by the Mexican Federal Police due to corruption problems and bribing issues. On May 30, 2009, the Mexican Federal Police took over the PFP's duties as the Federal Ministerial Police, which also took over the Mexican Federal Investigative Agency's duties.

### Calderón's administration

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Main article: Mexican Drug War

When Felipe Calderón took office as president in 2006, there were roughly half a dozen drug cartels in Mexico. Each of the organizations was large and dominated huge parts of Mexico's territorial landscape, and operated internationally and overseas as well.[7] When Calderón assumed the presidency, he realized that he could not rely on the federal police nor the intelligence agencies to restore order and crack down the logistics of the mafias.[7] Over several decades, the cartels had bribed police commanders and top politicians, and often riddled with corruption, state authorities would not only fail to cooperate with other authorities at distinct federal levels, but would actively protect the cartels and their leaders. With limited options available, Calderón turned to the Mexican Armed Forces, which, because of its limited involvement in acting against the cartels, remained relatively immune to corruption and organized crime infiltration.[7] He then moved the military to parts of Mexico most plagued by drug violence to target, capture, and – if necessary – kill the leaders of the drug trafficking organizations. Yet, the president understood that the military could not fight the cartels alone and needed cops to rely on for patrolling, collecting intelligence information, and gathering evidence necessary to prosecute drug traffickers.[7]

With the argument that he was tired of the corruption, Calderón abolished the AFI agency created in May 2009 and created an entirely new police force.[7] The new force has formed part of Mexico's first national crime information system, which stores the fingerprints of everyone arrested in the country. They also have assumed the role of the Army in several parts of the country. According to The New York Times, the federal police have avoided "any serious incidents of corruption."[7]

On October 21, 2008, President Felipe Calderón proposed to break up the former Federal Preventive Police to replace it with a different organization, because "the PFP has not yielded the expected results and has not been a strong institution capable of serving as a model for all police services in the country."[8][9] The new corporation became the Federal Police. It provides support to the police in the Federal District, states, and municipalities. This decision was said to be not entirely unexpected, given the insufficient number of convictions, the alarming increase in violence, abductions, and cases of corruption and complicity with organized crime elements.[10][11][12][13][14][15]

### Peña Nieto's administration

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In 2012, it was reported that President Enrique Peña Nieto's government had proposed the creation of a new unit to replace all Federal Police duties.[16] The Federal Police would not be disbanded, but they would be assigned to special tasks and missions.[citation needed] Additional information on Mexico's planned gendarmerie was on the website MexiData.info on December 24, 2012.[17]

In 2014, the Federal Police's Gendarmerie Division was created with 5,000 police agents. Its focus is on providing ongoing public security in areas with heavy criminal activities and providing border security. It is also expected to reinforce state, city, and municipal police forces as needed. It is one of the seven constituent divisions of the Federal Police, reporting directly to the Commissioner, and the newest to be incepted. The National Gendarmerie is defined as a military-grade force within the Federal Police.

### López Obrador's administration

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Main article: National Guard (Mexico)

Before becoming President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador campaigned on a promise to take the military off the streets of Mexico.[18] Shortly after getting into office, Obrador released a plan to create the National Guard under control of the Mexican Armed Forces which would be in charge of "preventing and combating crime".[18][19] Obrador stated that the new National Guard would be critical to solving Mexico's ongoing security crisis.[20][21]

On 28 February, Mexico's General Congress voted to approve a 60,000-member national guard.[21] On 30 June 2019, the National Guard was officially established in the Constitution of Mexico.[22] The new National Guard, de facto successor to a similar formation raised in 1821 and abolished in 1935, is composed today of personnel from parts of both the National Gendarmerie and Federal Forces Divisions of the Federal Police.[23]

## Strength

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In 2000, the PF had 10,878 agents and staff:

* 4,899 from the Mexican army's 3rd Brigade of the Military Police (Tercera brigada de policía militar), included two military police battalions and an Assault Battalion.
* 4,000 from the Federal Highway Police (Policía Federal de Caminos)
* 1,500 from the Fiscal Police (Policía Fiscal Federal)
* 600 from the Interior Ministry's Center of National Security And Investigation (Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional) – Mexican intelligence agency.

## Organization

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Federal Police Day celebration.

Regulation of the Law of the Federal Police in the Official Gazette of May 17, 2010, to establish the basic organizational structure of this Decentralized Administrative Body, Article 5 of that system, comprising a total of 136 seats of middle and senior management, broken 130 seats, as shown below:

* 1 General Commissioner;
* 7 Divisions: Intelligence Research, Regional Security; Scientific, Drug, Federal and Gendarmerie Forces;
* 1 General Secretariat;
* 1 Internal Affairs;
* 20 Coordination;
* 66 DGs;
* 6 DGs in aid to the Chief of the Division of Regional Security;
* 32 State Coordination at the regional level; and
* 1 Head of Internal Affairs.

### Commissioner General

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* Generale Vargas Pitt Azian of Legal Affairs
* Directorate General of Information
* Directorate General of Social Communication
* Directorate General of Planning and Coordination

### Intelligence Division

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* Coordination of Technical Services
* General Directorate of Technical Monitoring Center
* Directorate General of the Center for Risk Alert and Response
* Directorate General for Development and Operation of Coverage
* Covert Operations Coordination
* Directorate General Operations and Infiltration
* Directorate General of Recruitment and Resource Management
* Directorate General for Supervision and Surveillance
* Coordination Analysis and International Liaison
* Directorate General of Analysis and Statistics
* Directorate General for International Police Affairs
* Indicators DG Information Integration

### Research Division

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* Research Coordination Office
* Directorate General of Tactical Analysis
* General Directorate of Criminal Records and Records
* Directorate General for Crisis Management and Negotiation
* Coordination of Field Research
* DG Research of Crimes against the Security and Integrity of Persons
* Directorate General for Research of Crimes High Impact
* DG Research of Federal Crimes
* Technical Research Coordination and Operation
* Directorate General of Technical Operations
* Directorate General of Operational Intelligence
* Directorate General Tactical Support

### Regional Security Division

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* DG Personnel
* DG Information
* Directorate General Operations
* Department of Logistics and Training
* Directorate General of Planning and Supervision
* Directorate General of Operational Control
* State Coordinators (32)
* Regional Coordination Zones (5)
* Central Regional Coordination Zone
* Northeast Regional Coordination Zone
* Northwest Regional Coordination Zone
* West Regional Coordination Zone
* Southeast Regional Coordination Zone

### Scientific Division

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* For the Prevention of Electronic Crimes
* Department of Cyber Crimes Prevention
* CERT-MX – Centre of Expertise in Technological Response (Centro Especializado en Respuesta Tecnológica)
* DG Laboratories in Electronics and Forensic Investigation
* Coordination of Technological Innovation
* Directorate General for Emerging Information Technologies
* Department of Infrastructure and Implementation of Technological Processes
* Directorate General for Innovation and Development
* Coordination of Criminology
* Directorate General of Criminal Behavior
* DG Laboratories
* DG Specialties

### Drug Division

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* Drug Research Coordination Office
* Tactical Analysis Directorate General of Drug
* Directorate General of Records and Registration of Drug Trafficking and Related Crimes
* Liaison Department and Institutional Cooperation
* Field Research Coordination and Technical Drug
* Directorate General of Technical Operation Drug
* Directorate General of Drug Intelligence Operations
* Directorate General Tactical Support against Drug Trafficking and Related Crimes
* Research Coordination Illicit Resources
* Directorate General of Tactical Analysis of Crimes Financial System
* Financial Intelligence Directorate for Prevention
* Prevention Directorate General Operations Illicit Resources

### Federal Forces Division

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* Coordination for Law and Order Restoration
* Directorate General for Force Protection
* Directorate General for Rescue Operations and Civil Support
* Directorate General of Prison Transfers and Support
* Coordination of Immediate Quick Reaction Forces
* Directorate General of Physical Security
* Directorate General for Quick Action Forces
* Directorate General of the Canine Units
* Coordination of Special Operations
* Directorate General of Intervention
* Directorate General of Explosives
* Directorate General of Special Equipment

### National Gendarmerie Division

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See article: National Gendarmerie (Mexico)

* Coordination Bureau of the National Gendarmerie
* Directorate General of Planning and Logistics
* Directorate General of Strategic Operations and Special Units of the Gendarmerie
* Directorate General of Social Services and Public Affairs

### General Secretary

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* Coordination of General Services
* Directorate General of Human Resources
* Directorate General of Financial Resources
* Department of Material Resources
* Air Operations Coordination
* Directorate General Operations
* Directorate General Maintenance
* Directorate General for Aviation and Safety Supervision
* Coordination Technical Support
* Department of Information
* Directorate General of Telecommunications
* Directorate General of Technical Facilities and Maintenance
* Police Coordination System Development
* Control Directorate General Trust
* Directorate General of Civil Service System and Disciplinary
* Directorate-General for Education and Professionalization

### Internal Affairs

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* Directorate General for Internal Oversight, Monitoring and
* Directorate General for Internal Investigation
* Directorate General Accountability

### Internal Control

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### Superior Academy of Public Security of the Federal Police

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* Directorate General;
* Directorate-General for Administration;
* Academic Board;
* Preceptory address
* Services Division

### Divisions

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Vehicles of the Policía Federal in a parade in Tepic

The Policía Federal consists of seven branches of service, known as divisions, administered by a central administration called the General Secretariat (Secretaría General) [24][25]

* Anti-drug Division – División Antidrogas
* Scientific Division – División Científica
* Federal Forces Division – División de Fuerzas Federales
* Intelligence Division – División de Inteligencia
* Investigation Division – División de Investigación
* Regional Security Division – División de Seguridad Regional
* National Gendarmerie Division – División de Gendarmería Nacional

There is also a separate Internal Affairs Unit (Unidad de Asuntos Internos).

2010 included the Policía Federal approx 35,000 civil servants on.[26] A Comisionado General (General Manager), which is used directly by the President of Mexico, heads with wide-ranging powers the institution.[27] Maribel Cervantes Guerrero broke off in February 2012 Facundo Rosas Rosas, who held this office since 2009 .[28]

The Special Operations Group (GOPES) is the police elite counter-terror hostage rescue unit.

## Ranks

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Rank insignia of the Mexican Federal Police.

Commissioned officers

Rank group  | General / flag officers  | Senior officers  | Junior officers
Mexican Federal Police[29] | No equivalent |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Commissioner general
Comisionado General | Commissary general
Comisario General | Chief commissary
Comisario Jefe | Commissary
Comisario | Inspector general
Inspector General | Chief inspector
Inspector Jefe | Inspector
Inspector | Subinspector
Subinspector | Officer
Oficial | Subofficer
Suboficial

Basic scale ladder

Rank group  | Senior NCOs  | Junior NCOs  | Enlisted
Mexican Federal Police[29] | No equivalent

* * *

|  | No equivalent |  |  | No equivalent

* * *

Sergeant
Policía Primero | Senior Constable
Policía Segundo | Leading Constable
Policía Tercero | Constable
Policía

The ranks from Commissioner to Commissioner General wear more complex rank insignia involving the seven-pointed star of the Federal Police badge above one to four five-pointed stars placed between two stripes.

## Equipment

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### Weapons

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Heckler & Koch USP Heckler & Koch MP5 FN FAL Heckler & Koch G3A3 Heckler & Koch MSG90 Heckler & Koch HK21 Mossberg 500

#### Pistols

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* Glock pistol
* Heckler & Koch USP
* Jericho 941
* FNP-9
* CZ P-09

#### Submachine guns

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* Colt 9 mm SMG
* Heckler & Koch MP5
* Heckler & Koch MP7
* Heckler & Koch UMP
* Uzi

##### Long guns

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* Beretta AR70/90
* Beretta ARX 160
* CZ-805 BREN
* FN FAL
* Galil ACE
* Heckler & Koch G3

#### Sniper rifles

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* Barrett M82
* DSR-50
* Heckler & Koch MSG90

#### Machine guns

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* FN MAG
* FN Minimi
* Heckler & Koch HK21
* IMI Negev
* M2 Browning
* M60E4

#### Shotguns

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* Mossberg 500

#### Grenade Launchers

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* Heckler & Koch AG36
* Milkor MGL

### Transport

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The Mexican Federal Police has many vehicles: land, sea, and air. It is estimated to own more than 17,000 patrol cars. The exact information regarding transport vehicles and aircraft that comprise the fleet of the Federal Police is classified, to protect the life and efficiency of agents.[30]

Rotary wing and fixed wing pilot training takes place in the school of Naval Aviation located in Las Bajadas, Veracruz.[31]

### Aircraft

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Manufacturer  | Aircraft  | Versions  | Type  | In Service  | Origin  | Notes  | Image

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Fixed-wing aircraft
CASA | CASA CN-235 | CN-235-400 | Transport | 2 |  Spain | 1 on order |
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Hydra Technologies | Hydra Technologies S4 Ehécatl | S4B | Observation & Reconnaissance | 12 |  Mexico | Will be supported by 3 Elbit Hermes 900 |
Elbit Systems | Elbit Hermes 450 | H-450 | Observation & Reconnaissance | 4 |  Israel | 10 |
Helicopters
Sikorsky | UH-60 Black Hawk | UH-60M/L | Transport & Air Support | 13 |  United States |  |
Mil | Mil Mi-17 | Mi-171-V | Transport & Air Support | 3 |  Russia |  |
Eurocopter | Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil | AS350L1 | Reconnaissance & Air Support | 10 |  European Union | 3 more ordered |
Eurocopter | Eurocopter EC120 Colibri | EC120 | Transport & Reconnaissance | 3 |  European Union |  |
Bell Helicopter | Bell 206 | B-206L | Transport & Reconnaissance | 5 |  United States | 1 loss |
Bell Helicopter | Bell 412 | B-412EP | Transport, Air Support & Reconnaissance | 3 |  United States | Recently introduced, accompanied by one B-412 from the FAM |
MD Helicopters | MD 500 | MD 530G | Reconnaissance & Air Support | 7 |  United States | Recently introduced, accompanied by one B-412 from the FAM |

## See also

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* Mexico portal

* Attorney General of Mexico
* Crime in Mexico
* Federales
* Grupo de Operaciones Especiales (Mexico)
* Rurales
* Mexican Drug War
* United States Marshals Service

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Policía Federal.

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## External links

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* PF Official site – English
* Official site (in Spanish)
* Statistics of Crime in Mexico Archived 2019-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
* Photos of PF cars
* Federal Police Forces
* Police Forces in Mexico

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* v
* t
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Law enforcement in Mexico

Federal|

* Attorney General
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* PROFECO
* Secretariat of Public Security of Mexico City

State|

* Tamaulipas State Police
* Yucatán State Police

Defunct|

* Federal Police
* Grupo de Operaciones Especiales

* v
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* e

Mexican drug war (2006–present)

Names in italics represent dead or arrested individuals.

Timeline

Federal forces

* Mexican Army
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* Fuerzas Especiales (special forces)
* Policía Federal Ministerial
* SEIDO (organized crime investigation)
* Federal Police
* National Guard

Beltrán-Leyva Cartel

disbanded 2010

Armed wings|

* Los Mazatlecos
* South Pacific Cartel

Founders|

* Arturo Beltrán Leyva
* Alfredo Beltrán Leyva
* Carlos Beltrán Leyva
* Edgar Valdez Villarreal
* Sergio Villarreal Barragán
* Héctor Beltrán Leyva

Leaders|

* Héctor Beltrán Leyva
* Fausto Isidro Meza Flores

La Familia Cartel

| Founders|

* Nazario Moreno González
* Carlos Rosales Mendoza
* Arnoldo Rueda Medina
* Dionisio Loya Plancarte
* Rafael Cedeño Hernández
* Alberto Espinoza Barrón
* Enrique Plancarte Solís
* José de Jesús Méndez Vargas
* Servando Gómez Martínez

|

Gulf Cartel

| Factions|

* Los Metros
* Los Rojos

|

Founders|

* Juan Nepomuceno Guerra
* Juan García Abrego

Leaders|

* Óscar Malherbe de León
* Osiel Cárdenas Guillén
* Antonio Cárdenas Guillén
* Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez
* Mario Ramírez Treviño
* Homero Cárdenas Guillén

Juárez Cartel

| Armed wings|

* La Línea

|

Founders|

* Rafael Aguilar Guajardo
* Pablo Acosta Villarreal
* Amado Carrillo Fuentes

Leaders|

* Vicente Carrillo Fuentes
* Juan Pablo Ledezma

Knights Templar Cartel

| Armed wings|

* La Resistencia

|

Founders|

* Enrique Plancarte Solís
* Servando Gómez Martínez

Leaders|

* Enrique Plancarte Solís
* Servando Gómez Martínez
* Nazario Moreno González

Sinaloa Cartel

| Armed wings|

* Gente Nueva
* Jalisco New Generation Cartel
* Los Ántrax
* Artistas Asesinos

|

Founders|

* Héctor Luis Palma Salazar
* Adrián Gómez González
* Joaquín Guzmán Loera
* Ismael Zambada García

Leaders|

* Joaquín Guzmán Loera
* Ismael Zambada García
* Juan José Esparragoza Moreno
* Ignacio Coronel Villarreal

Tijuana Cartel

| Founders|

* Ramón Arellano Félix
* Benjamín Arellano Félix
* Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix
* Carlos Arellano Félix
* Eduardo Arellano Félix
* Francisco Javier Arellano Félix

|

Leaders|

* Enedina Arellano Félix
* Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellano
* Edgardo Leyva Escandón

Los Zetas

| Founders|

* Arturo Guzmán Decena
* Jaime González Durán
* Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar
* Heriberto Lazcano
* Galindo Mellado Cruz

|

Leaders|

* Heriberto Lazcano
* Miguel Treviño Morales
* Omar Treviño Morales

Jalisco New Generation Cartel

| Founders|

* Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes
* Érick Valencia Salazar
* Abigael González Valencia
* Martín Arzola Ortega

|

Leaders|

* Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes
* Jorge Luis Mendoza Cárdenas
* Érick Valencia Salazar
* Martín Arzola Ortega
* Rubén Oseguera González
* Abigael González Valencia
* Antonio Oseguera Cervantes
* Elvis González Valencia
* Julio Alberto Castillo Rodríguez
* Gerardo González Valencia
* José González Valencia
* Rosalinda González Valencia

* Other cartels and drug lords
* Corrupt officials

| Other cartels|

* Independent Acapulco
* Caborca
* Colima
* Guadalajara
* Los Negros
* Los Rojos
* Los Viagras
* Milenio
* Noreste
* Nueva Plaza
* Oaxaca
* Santa Rosa de Lima
* Sonora

|

Early drug lords|

* Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
* Rafael Caro Quintero
* Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo
* Héctor Luis Palma Salazar
* Jesús Amezcua Contreras
* Pedro Avilés Pérez
* Juan Nepomuceno Guerra
* Juan García Ábrego

Corrupt officials|

* Miguel Nazar Haro
* José de Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo
* Arturo Durazo Moreno
* Noé Ramírez Mandujano
* Raúl Salinas de Gortari
* Genaro García Luna
* Julio César Godoy Toscano
* Tomás Yarrington

* Projects
* Operations

| Projects|

* Coronado
* Delirium
* Gunrunner
* Shadowfire
* Southern Tempest
* Wildfire

|

Operations|

* Baja California
* Bishop
* Black Swan
* Blue Storm
* Chihuahua
* Community Shield
* Coyote
* Culiacán
* Diablo Express
* Escorpión
* Fast and Furious
* Jump Start
* Kruz Control
* Lince Norte
* Michoacán
* Mongoose Azteca
* Nuevo León-Tamaulipas
* Phalanx
* Quintana Roo
* Sinaloa
* Solare
* Terminus
* Wide Receiver
* Xcellerator

* Massacres
* Deaths

| Massacres|

* Juárez rehab center
* Villas de Salvárcar
* Chihuauha
* Nuevo León
* Guerrero
* 2010 San Fernando
* 2011 San Fernando
* 2011 Durango
* Coahuila
* 2011 Monterrey
* Altamira
* Apodaca
* 2012 Nuevo Laredo
* Cadereyta Jiménez
* 2014 Iguala
* San Sebastián
* Topo Chico
* Salamanca
* Minatitlán
* Uruapan
* Coatzacoalcos
* LeBarón & Langford
* Cieneguillas
* Irapuato
* Camargo
* Coatepec Harinas
* Las Tinajas
* Celaya
* Juárez prison
* Salvatierra

|

Deaths|

* Politicians killed
* Journalists and media workers killed
* Enrique Camarena (DEA agent)
* Rodolfo Torre Cantú (physician / politician)
* Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez (police commander)
* Jaime Jorge Zapata (US agent)

* Books
* Other topics

| Books|

* Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars
* El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
* The Fight to Save Juárez

|

Other topics|

* 2015 Amado checkpoint protest
* 2018 Chimney Canyon shootout
* Blog del Narco
* CIA drug trafficking allegations
* Jalisco extermination camp
* Juárez house of death
* Most-wanted Mexican drug lords
* Manhunt of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (2001–2014)
* Narcoculture in Mexico
* Narco-submarine
* Narco tank
* Piracy on Falcon Lake
* War on drugs
* Women in the Mexican drug war

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* e

Police forces and law enforcement by country

International law enforcement organisations|

* Afripol (AU)
* Ameripol
* Aseanapol
* CARICC
* ECOPOL (ECO)
* Europol (EU)
* Frontex (EU)
* GCC-Pol (GCC)
* Interpol
* SELEC

Africa|

* Algeria
* Angola
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* Burkina Faso
* Burundi
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* Togo
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* Uganda
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe

Americas|

* Antigua and Barbuda
* Argentina
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Asia and Oceania|

* Afghanistan
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* Vietnam
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Europe|

* Albania
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* Vatican City

States with limited recognition|

* Artsakh
* Northern Cyprus
* Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
* Somaliland
* Republic of China (Taiwan)

Defunct|

* Albania (Royal Albanian Gendarmerie)
* Czechoslovakia
* East Germany
* Philippines
* INP
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* Polish People's Republic
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