MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s new government presented its security strategy on Tuesday, vowing to strengthen the country’s National Guard police force and boost intelligence gathering.
Speaking at President Claudia Sheinbaum’s morning press conference, Security Minister Omar Garcia Harfuch said the National Guard is currently made up of 133,000 members.
Sheinbaum, who pledged her government would not wage a new war on Mexico’s powerful drug cartels, said her strategy will instead aim to support the public in areas hit especially hard by violent crime, as well as young people suffering drug addictions.
Garcia Harfuch formerly served as Sheinbaum’s police chief when she was mayor of the capital Mexico City, and added that the new strategy will also focus on crime prevention.
(Reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Stephen Eisenhammer)
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