Chiapas Says It Receives Police Training From Israel, But Israel Embassy Denies It Andrew O'Reilly - Fox News Latino
go to original June 15, 2013

Israeli military advisors were in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas last month to aid local law enforcement officials in new strategies to combat security threats, according to the Mexican media.

While widely reported in Mexico, the report was denied by Israeli officials in Mexico City.

Early last month, the Secretary of Security and Civil Protection in Chiapas, Jorge Luís Abarca, met with Yaron Yugman, a representative from Israel’s Ministry of Defense to discuss coordinated strategies in police training, prison security and the use of technology in law enforcement, the government said.

“In this sense, we prioritized the needs for each area, which were selected, analyzed and improved based on the representative of the Ministry of Defense of Israel’s experience on the subject,” a press release from the Chiapas government stated. “We must focus our experiences in police training, which allows not only to be more prepared, but strengthened professionally, preventing corruption and putting the issue of Human Rights first."

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