Mexico to establish 5 anti-kidnapping centers

San Diego Union Tribune - Online
ASSOCIATED PRESS

3:23 p.m. August 11, 2008

MEXICO CITY – Mexico is establishing five national anti-kidnapping centers and pushing for a cleanup of police forces after authorities were implicated in the deadly abduction of a prominent businessman's son.

The Public Safety Department's intelligence coordinator, Luis Cardenas, says the centers will staffed by 300 federal police and open 24 hours a day. The centers were announced on Sunday.

On Monday, Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino said the federal government has offered to help eliminate corruption in local and state police forces.

The actions follow a nationwide outcry over suspicions that several police officers participated in the abduction and killing of 14-year-old Fernando Marti. His body was found Aug. 1.

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