The Federal Ministerial Police (in Spanish: ''Policía Federal Ministerial'', PFM) is a
Mexican
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federal agency tasked with fighting corruption and organized crime, through an executive order by President
Felipe Calderón
Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (; born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician who served as the 63rd president of Mexico from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012 and Secretary of Energy during the presidency of Vicente Fox between 2003 a ...
. The agency is directed by the
Attorney General's Office
The Attorney General's Office (AGO) is a department of His Majesty's Government that supports the Attorney General and their deputy, the Solicitor General (together, the Law officers of the Crown in England and Wales). It is sometimes referred ...
(FGR) and may have been partly modeled on the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, ...
of the United States. PFM agents in action often wear masks to prevent themselves from being identified by gang leaders. PFM agents are uniformed when carrying out raids.
"Street-level" uniformed federal police patrols and transport terminal security are handled by the service personnel of the
National Guard
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Nat ...
.
History
It was formed in 2009 as a reform and renaming of the Federal Investigative Agency (Agencia Federal de Investigación or AFI) which had replaced an earlier agency, the
Federal Judicial Police
The Federal Judicial Police ( es, Policía Judicial Federal, the PJF) was the federal police force of Mexico until it was shut down in 2002 due to its own rampant corruption and criminal activity.
The jurisdiction of the Federal Judicial Police en ...
. Some agents of the Federal Investigations Agency were believed to work as enforcers for the
Sinaloa Cartel. The Attorney General's Office reported in December 2005 that 1,500 of 7,000 AFI agents — nearly 25% of the force — were under investigation for suspected criminal activity and 457 were facing charges.
In November 2008, Rodolfo de la Guardia García, the No. 2 official in the AFI from 2003 to 2005, was placed under arrest as investigators looked into the possibility that he leaked information to the Sinaloa Cartel in return for monthly payments.
On 29 May 2009, the Federal Investigations Agency was restructured and renamed.
Ranks
* Commissioner General
* Comissary General
* Chief Comissary
* Comissary
* General Inspector
* Chief Inspector
* Inspector
* Subinspector
* Officer
* Sub-Officer
Organization
* General Directorate of Ministerial and Judicial Mandates
* General Directorate of Special Security Services and Protection of Persons
* General Directorate of Police Investigation In Support of Mandates
* General Directorate of International Police Matters - Interpol
* General Directorate of Communications Center
* General Directorate of Technical Support and Logistic
Equipment
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Glock 17
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IWI Jericho 941
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IMI Galil
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IWI Ace
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IWI Tavor
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Heckler & Koch MP7
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It was designed (together with the new cartri ...
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AR-15
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M4 Carbine
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The M4 is extensively ...
See also
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Afghan National Police
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Civil Police (Brazil)
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, ...
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Federales
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Federal police
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Federal Security Service (Russia)
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) RF; rus, Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации (ФСБ России), Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Feder ...
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Guardia di Finanza
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Iraqi Police
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National Police (France)
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People's Armed Police
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, abbreviation = PAP ("People's Armed Police") CAPF ("Chinese Armed Police Force"), formerly abbreviated''Wujing'' ( zh , s = 武警 , p = Wǔjǐng , l = Armed Police , labels = no ), or WJ as on vehicle license plates
, patch ...
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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(RCMP)
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Scotland Yard
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Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)
References
External links
Attorney General's OfficeAttorney General's Office
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Defunct law enforcement agencies of Mexico
Federal law enforcement agencies of Mexico
Vicente Fox
Mexican drug war