SNSP Reports Over 13% of Mexico's Police Failed Trustworthiness Exam Murry Page - The Mazatlan Messenger
go to original January 4, 2016

The state that had the highest failure rate was Sinaloa where only 50 percent of its police force passed the exam. (Richard Fausset/Los Angeles Times)

The National Public Security System (SNSP) reported that of Mexico’s 337,209 state police 291,693 passed its control de confianza, or confidence control test that aimed to ensure every officer’s aptitude and trustworthiness, which means that 45,516 failed the exam or 13.49 percent of all state police.

The SNSP says it does not know what happened to those 45,516 policemen. Last month Miguel Osorio Chong, Mexico’s Interior Minister, said that some state governors did not terminate the policemen who failed the exam because the state did not have the financial resources to pay them the severance fees they were entitled to.

Osorio said that those governors have been told that the officers who failed the exam could not be on the streets or carry out any of their police duties. He said that according to the law, every police officer who failed the trustworthiness exam had to be terminated.

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