Mexican Law Enforcement Changes Proposed

(Mexico City) Federal Secretary of Public Security Genero Garcia Luna has proposed structural changes to the entire law enforcement system in Mexico.

Apparently, the practice of hiring uneducated men to work as police officers and paying them dirt-poor wages isn't working to prevent corruption.

”In Mexico, recruitment of police was catching someone who had no job or education. The present operating system doesn’t work. Paying police wages less than necessary to actually survive doesn’t only lead to individual corruption, but department corruption. The fault is not the officer’s, it’s the system’s.”

Luna is proposing that officers have at least a high school education.