The Tamaulipas State Police (), also known as the Tamaulipas Force ( es, Fuerza Tamaulipas), is a state agency of
law enforcement
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Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in the northeast region of Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entiti ...
,
Mexico
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. It operates public safety services. It is a division of the Secretariat of Public Safety of Tamaulipas ().
Police academy
The state police academy is located in Colonia Benito Juárez in
Ciudad Victoria.
Prisons
The agency operates the state of Tamaulipas's prisons for adults. Each is called a "Centro de Rehabilitacion Social" (CERESO, "Social Rehabilitation Center").
[Negrete Lares, Angeles.]
Prison director replaced following Matamoros jailbreak
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Jesse O. Wheeler, a newspaperman from Victoria, purchased Brownsville's ''Cosmopolitan'' newspaper in 1892 and renamed it the ''Browns ...
''. January 1, 2003. Retrieved on December 12, 2010. As of 2010 the state has eight prisons with almost 8,000 prisoners. 25% of the prisoners faced federal charges.
[Althaus, Dudley.]
85 escape prison in border city
" ''Houston Chronicle
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''. September 11, 2010. Retrieved on December 12, 2010.
The prisons include:
* CERESO
Altamira[sria_seg_pub.pdf]
" Tamaulipas Department of Public Safety. Retrieved on December 12, 2010.
* CERESO
Mante[Población en los Centros de Ejecución de Sanciones del Estado]
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* CERESO
Matamoros II
- southwest of Matamoros
* CERESO
Miguel Alemán
* CERESO
Nuevo Laredo II
* CERESO
Reynosa
* CERESO
Tula
Tula may refer to:
Geography
Antarctica
*Tula Mountains
*Tula Point
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*Tulā, a solar month in the traditional Indian calendar
Iran
* Tula, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province
Italy
* Tula, Sardinia, municipality (''comune'') in the pr ...
* CERESO
Victoria
References
External links
Tamaulipas Department of Public Safety
* CNN Wire Staff.
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CNN
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. December 18, 2010.
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