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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 10 MEXICO 002669 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR INL 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
SUBJECT: MEXICAN LEADERS SIGN SECURITY ACCORD RESPONDING TO 
RISING PUBLIC CLAMOR OVER CRIME 
 
(SBU) SUBJECT:  MEXICAN LEADERS SIGN SECURITY ACCORD 
RESPONDING TO RISING PUBLIC CLAMOR OVER CRIME 
 
Summary 
 
¶1. Civil society organizations have organized a massive 
demonstration on August 30 calling upon the government to 
respond with greater urgency to rising levels of violent 
crime.  In response to the public clamor over the serious 
security challenges Mexico faces, senior Mexican government 
officials including President Calderon, the mayor of Mexico 
City, the country's 31 state governors and various 
congressmen, as well as senior members of the judiciary and 
the military met on August 21 and unanimously adopted a 
75-point package of security measures to be implemented over 
the next 3 years.  The package includes initiatives aimed at 
purging police corruption, constructing several new 
maximum-security prisons, and creating a database for mobile 
phones that the government will use to track down criminals 
using them.  Although the summit has been described by some 
critics as a re-packaging of old or in-progress measures, it 
appears to have served the purpose of securing much-needed 
support from governors and key community leaders for the 
GOM's security strategy in the near term.  End Summary. 
 
Calderon and Ebrard Clash Over High-Profile Kidnapping/Murder 
 
¶2.  In the wake of the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old 
Fernando Marti, the son of prominent Mexican businessman 
Alejandro Marti, President Calderon and Mexico City's mayor 
Marcelo Ebrard initiated several security measures in early 
August, including creating special police units to prevent 
and investigate cases of kidnapping.  In rolling out their 
anti-kidnapping initiatives, Calderon and Ebrard clashed 
publicly over which level of government bore responsibility 
Mexico's crime problem. The President asserted that there was 
inadequate intergovernmental collaboration, while the mayor 
insisted that Mexico City authorities cooperated fully with 
federal agencies. This argument, which grows out of 
overarching political conflict between the two, in large 
measure prompted civic groups to issue a public call for the 
federal government, the legislature, the judiciary, and state 
authorities to work together to address the country's 
problems of rampant violence and criminal impunity. 
 
Landmark Security Summit Agrees on 75 Measures to Combat Crime 
 
¶3.  Responding to the call, President Calderon hosted an 
historic and unprecedented security summit on August 21st at 
the National Palace.  In attendance were senior GOM 
officials, Mayor of Mexico City Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico's 31 
state governors, senior congressmen and judicial officials, 
as well as civil society and business leaders.  Officials 
approved a 75-point package of security measures entitled the 
"national agreement for security, justice, and rule of law." 
The 75-point agenda commits virtually every institution to 
contribute to the war against crime via the pact, which will 
be implemented over the next three years. 
(See annex of this cable for full list of commitments and 
timeframes.) 
 
Executive Branch Commitments 
(Annex, 1-28) 
 
¶4.  Of the 75-point measures, 28 are the responsibility of 
the executive branch.  Many of these measures focus on 
kidnapping reflecting the government's desire to stem the 
sharp rise in abductions over recent years.  National 
authorities will develop a strategy to combat kidnappings 
over the next six months, create special units within the 
police and the Attorney General's office to investigate and 
prosecute kidnappings, and complete within two years the 
construction of two maximum-security prisons with areas 
specifically designated for kidnappers to ensure that they 
are not able to recruit inmates convicted of different 
offences to their gangs. 
 
¶5.  Additional prominent measures include the following: 
 
-- Create a national tracking system that would locate cell 
phone users in real time in order to reduce cell phone 
extortion. 
 
 
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-- Establish a reward and protection program for informants 
whose tips lead to arrests. 
 
-- Develop and implement a strategy to combat money 
laundering. 
 
-- Give customs officials two years to reduce in the amount 
of weapons and precursor chemicals entering the country. 
 
¶6.  Authorities stress the importance they attached to 
monitoring compliance with the accord's particulars.  The 
agreement calls for participants to meet again in a month and 
then two months after that to assess progress towards 
implementation of specific provisions. Separately, the 
agreement calls for creation of a civilian oversight body 
similarly entrusted will responsibility for ensuring the 
government is adhering to the agreement's terms.  The promise 
to form a citizen's watchdog group is well-received by public 
security analysts, who believe it holds the potential to 
exert sustained pressure upon authorities provided it is 
availed  access to hard numbers on crimes committed. 
 
Legislative Branch Commitments 
(Annex, 29-35) 
 
¶7. (SBU) Congress pledged to pass new legislation in the 
upcoming legislative session to fight kidnapping, in part by 
eliminating bail and parole options for kidnappers, and crack 
down on street sales of drugs.  Presently, kidnapping is a 
state crime.  The new legislation could look at transferring 
this authority to the federal government.  While Mexican 
security expert Jorge Chabat told poloff that the federal 
government would likely oppose a transfer of jurisdiction 
given the political ramifications involved in investigating 
these types of cases, SSP Secretary Garcia Luna told U.S. 
Senator Arlen Spector earlier this month he thought 
kidnapping should be a federal crime. 
 
Judicial Branch Commitments 
(Annex, 36-45) 
 
¶8.  Provisions pertaining to the judicial branch include the 
following: 
 
-- Make more statistics pertaining to the prosecution of 
criminals available to the public. 
 
-- Establish special courts to review requests for and issue 
search warrants and wire tap orders. 
 
-- Appoint special judges to more dangerous cases and grant 
them commensurate salaries and protection. 
 
Comment:  Embassy legal experts laud the judicial commitments 
in the accord, but think some of the time frames set for the 
implementation of many of the measures are too ambitious. End 
Comment. 
 
State and Municipal Government Commitments 
(Annex, 46-61) 
 
¶9.  State governments committed to creating special 
anti-kidnapping units and both state and local governments 
agreed to conduct tests to weed out corrupt police.  Both 
state and municipal governments also promised to allocate 
more resources in their budgets to improving security and law 
enforcement institutions.  Indicators of police performance 
will also be developed at both levels of government to 
conform to the methodology used by national indicators. 
Comment:  Although Mexico City PRD mayor Marcelo Ebrard 
stepped up to Alejandro Marti's challenge of reducing crime 
or resigning, he also claimed that implementing security 
measures in the capital would require US$1.2bn worth of 
funding next year alone.  Michoacan PRD Governor Leonel Godoy 
echoed this condition, stating that his state would require 
more money if it is to achieve the objectives agreed upon at 
the crime summit.  End Comment. 
 
Private Sector, Civil Society, Religious Groups, and the 
Media (Annex 62-75) 
 
¶10.  Historically, Mexican citizens underreport crime to the 
police out of concern the police will not effectively address 
 
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their complaints or even worse revictimize them.  The private 
sector, civil society, religious groups, and the media agreed 
to undertake campaigns encouraging citizens to report crime 
to the police.  Equally important, each pledged to promote a 
culture of lawfulness and specific programs to monitor the 
compliance of local and national authorities with their 
obligations. 
 
Reactions 
 
¶11. (SBU) Some analysts called the summit "reactive," 
maintaining that the proposals represented a response to the 
immediate problems but not a sufficiently thought through 
plan for the future.  Other observers noted that a number of 
initiatives had been announced in prior incarnations of this 
month's security summit.  Indeed, some members of post's law 
enforcement community pointed out that many of the measures 
identified among the 75 points are already in place. 
 
¶12. (SBU) Mexican security expert Jorge Chabat told poloff 
that many of the recent developments" including the "March 
Against Insecurity" organized by civil society this 
weekend/August 30 '' were reminiscent of a similar series of 
events during the Fox Administration.  In June 2004, the NGO 
Mexico United Against Crime organized a march in which over a 
million Mexicans dressed in white and took to the streets of 
Mexico City to protest the GOM's failure to address the 
chronic problems of crime and violence.  In response to the 
demonstrations, Fox unveiled a 10-point plan that included 
increased collaboration between federal ad state authorities, 
anti-corruption measures for federal police, and further 
increases in security spending.  The increased violence and 
crime over the past four years indicates that these measures 
were not sufficient.  On a more positive note, Chabat pointed 
out that the new accord, although similar in many aspects, is 
more narrowly focused on kidnapping and includes specific 
measures, such as the creation of new prisons specifically 
equipped for criminals convicted of kidnapping. 
 
¶13.  (SBU) Political analysts Sabino Bastidas and Juan 
Paredes both saw more merit in civil society engaging on this 
issue and placing pressure on the government than in the 
government's response, at least in the form of the agreement 
reached.  The challenges facing Mexico on security were too 
great to believe government could solve them alone.  Civil 
society needed to engage more fully not only in holding the 
government more accountable but in more fully embracing a 
culture of lawfulness in all facets of daily life. 
 
¶14. (SBU) Much of the Mexico public is focused on police 
corruption.  However, for both Bastidas and Paredes, the 
overriding issue when it comes to crime in Mexico is 
impunity.  Bastidas remarked that a recent crime survey 
revealed that only 1.7 percent of complaints registered with 
the police nationwide result in a conviction.  With those 
kinds of odds facing the authors of criminal activity, he was 
hardly surprised Mexico was observing rising levels of crime 
across the country.  On a related score, both argued for the 
government to take more serious measures to combat money 
laundering - an item included the recent agreement.  Calderon 
has effectively taken out major cartel figures.  However, 
they believed too many &respectable" members of Mexico's 
elite remained above reproach when in fact they were 
implicated in laundering the funds that fuel the organized 
crime plight Mexico faces. 
 
Comment 
 
¶15.  (SBU) The public clamor over rising levels of violent 
crime in Mexico, as evidenced by this weekend's march is 
producing a widening debate over the best strategy to combat 
organized crime.  Last week's summit provided state officials 
an opportunity to weigh in with the federal 
government and express their own concerns.  President 
Calderon, for his part, effectively steered the debate to 
secure support from federal and state officials for many 
policies his government had already proposed or begun 
implementing.  Implementation of the strategy, however, will 
be the key though, as will tackling the whole question of 
impunity. 
 
¶16.  Since Calderon took office in 2006 and began to deploy 
federal forces around the country to combat drug cartels, 
 
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many state governors have been quick to request assistance, 
and just as quick to complain when the federal troops in 
their states have not operated as they would like.  While 
Calderon appears to have the governors' support for now, 
there is no reason to think that it will last if the security 
situation continues to deteriorate.  The strict deadlines 
assigned to the various measures will put pressure on 
Calderon to demonstrate results.  This can be a good thing as 
deadlines will hopefully generate strategies to meet them. 
However, these deadlines and the overarching security 
problems Mexico faces will be subject to politicization as 
Mexico approaches mid-term elections next year.  Even before 
last week's summit, PRI leader 
Manlio Fabio Beltrones had already begun to describe 
Calderon's efforts to combat crime in Mexico as a failure 
before the summit.  No doubt, as Mexico struggles to turn the 
page on the crime threat it faces and citizens grow impatient 
with the time it is taking, we can expect the debate over 
crime to take on significant political overtones. 
 
 
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Annex 
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Executive Branch Commitments: 
 
¶1.  Purge and strengthen security and law enforcement 
institutions. 
 
-- Create a national evaluation and vetting model.  (4 months) 
 
-- Encourage the creation of certified state centers for 
evaluation and vetting.  (1 year) 
 
-- Subject all law enforcement, migration institutions, and 
prisons to evaluation and vetting.  (1 year) 
 
-- Establish a national police development system. (6 months) 
 
SSP will improve its methods of recruitment, training, 
promotion and retirement. 
 
-- Establish a national development system for the attorney 
general offices in the framework of the National Conference 
of Attorneys. 
 
PGR will improve its methods of recruitment, training, 
promotion and retirement of prosecutors.  (2 years; 1 year 
for federal prosecutors at the Attorney General's office) 
 
¶2.  In order to strengthen and make security and law 
enforcement systems more efficient, reassign more resources 
in the 2009 budget toward these purposes.  (in 2009 budget 
proposal) 
 
¶3.  Support states in combating crimes most harmful to 
society.  In particular, support the establishment of state 
anti-kidnapping units. 
 
In coordination with states, PGR and SPP will create a 
national strategy against kidnapping.  This strategy will 
include courses, seminars, and workshops to build up and 
maintain the units' capacity. (6 months) 
 
In coordination with states, SSP and PGR will formulate a 
national strategy against "narcomenudeo" that will sum up the 
capacity and necessary cooperation of different government 
entities within legislation to be determined by Congress. (6 
months) 
 
The GOM will strengthen PGR's SIEDO with financial resources, 
capacity training, expert witnesses, infrastructure, and 
equipment.   (18 months) 
 
¶4.  Create and issue a national strategy against money 
laundering.  (6 months) 
 
¶5.  Strengthen the institutional capacity of the federal 
Attorney General's Office (PGR).  (6 months) 
 
PGR will establish a protocol for acting on, investigating, 
and opening preliminary inquires and judicial procedures to 
 
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improve the effectiveness for obtaining convictions and 
sentences. 
 
¶6.  Strengthen and consolidate aid networks for victims of 
crime at the national level. (6 months) 
 
¶7.  Regulate the registration, establishment, and access to 
databases of all telephones and mobile equipment, as well as 
access to information of the physical location of cell phones 
in real time in cases of equipment/phone numbers involved in 
criminal activity.  (6 months) 
 
¶8.  Guarantee nationwide coverage of a single emergency 
telephone number (066) and a single number for anonymous tips 
(089).  (6 months) 
 
¶9.  With the participation of civil society, strengthen the 
system of reporting corruption and poor performance among 
civil servants.  (3 months) 
 
¶10.  Harmonize coordination and institutional agreement on 
public security in order to guarantee a sharing of 
responsibility among the federal, state, and municipal 
governments.  (Will present the initiative in September 2008) 
 
¶11.  Update the collective weapons permits issued by SEDENA 
to public security forces. (3 months) 
 
¶12.  Issue an identity document to all Mexican citizens.  (3 
years) 
 
¶13.  Strengthen the federal penitentiary system.  (2 years) 
 
SSP will construct federal maximum security prisons , 
including special facilities for kidnappers. 
 
¶14.  Revise the "Socorro del Ley" (the terms of assistance 
the federal government gives to states for housing federal 
prisoners). (6 months) 
 
In coordination with state officials, SSP will revise the 
monetary amounts assigned to states for maintenance and costs 
per federal prisoner in state prisons. 
 
¶15.  Strengthen and modernize the customs system.  (6 months) 
 
Hacienda will modernize all the customs systems of the 
country with technology, better processing and infrastructure 
to reduce contraband, in particular the traffic of arms and 
precursor chemicals. 
 
¶16.  Present to Congress a reform package that strengthens 
the federal government's capacities in security and law 
enforcement. (Present before October 2008) 
 
¶17.  Consolidate a Sole System of Criminal Information to 
guarantee the interconnection/exchange of information between 
institutions and levels of government in combating crime. 
(Part of Platform Mexico.)  (1 year) 
 
¶18.  Create substantive information model within Platform 
Mexico's Sole System of Criminal Information for registering, 
following-up on, and combating kidnapping.  (6 months) 
 
¶19.  Develop and expand the use of technology to exchange 
information to combat crime.  (1 year) 
 
¶20.  Create public campaigns to promote the culture of 
lawfulness.  (3 months) 
 
¶21.  Strengthen aid to those with addiction problems. 
(December 31, 2008) 
 
The Health Secretariat will expand the network of 
rehabilitation centers, adding 300 centers with nationwide 
coverage. 
 
¶22.  Strengthen the program "Rescuing Public Spaces." (1 year) 
 
The Secretariat of Social Development will recover at least 
1,000 deteriorated/abandoned/unsafe urban areas in zones with 
the highest criminal index. 
 
 
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¶23.  Strengthen the Safe School Program. (1 year) 
 
The Secretariat of Public Education will include this program 
in more than 13,500 schools and promote its implementation 
with private schools. 
 
¶24.  Guarantee accountability in the use of resources for 
public security programs. (1 year) 
 
¶25.  Implement public resources to Public Security Programs. 
(6 months) 
 
¶26.  Promote the creation of a Body of Citizen Observers that 
overseas and supervises the completion of government 
commitments.  (3 months) 
 
SSP will create the Body of Citizen Observers which will 
comprise representatives from distinct sectors of society and 
include security and judicial experts. 
 
¶27.  Create indicators/statistics to measure of the 
performance of police and law enforcement institutions with 
the participation of citizen organizations.  (2 months after 
the creation of the Citizen Observatory) 
 
¶28.  Include in school curricula studies in the culture of 
lawfulness and the promotion of civic values.  (1 year) 
 
 
Legislative Branch Commitments: 
 
¶29.  Process all outstanding and new security and justice 
reform legislation submitted before October 1 (Sept - 
December 2008 legislative session) 
 
¶30.  Establish harmonious jurisdictions to combat drug 
dealing (narcomenudeo), as well as regulations that permit 
their enforcement.  (Sept - December 2008 legislative session) 
 
¶31.  Encourage a law of enforcing penal punishments and 
provide rules to prevent the early release (and other 
benefits) to prisoners convicted of violent crimes and 
kidnappings. (Sept - December 2008 legislative session) 
 
¶32. Promote a general kidnapping law.  (Sept - December 2008 
legislative session) 
 
¶33.  Ensure that the budget priorities strengthen public 
security and law enforcement programs and actions.  (Sept - 
December 2008 legislative session) 
 
¶34.  Increased resources allocated to states and 
municipalities for addressing security issues.  (6 months) 
 
¶35.  The Chamber of Deputies will commit the Federal Chief 
Auditor's Office to perform revisions and audits of the 32 
states.  (1 year) 
 
Judicial Branch Commitments: 
 
¶36. Make the performance and activities of the judicial 
branch bodies and their prinicpals more transparent. (4 
months) 
 
Performance indicators for the federal judicial branch will 
be created so that the public will have access to various 
types of information, including information on trials/cases, 
crimes, duration of judicial procedures, archives, 
biographical information on judges, and public opinion polls 
on the judicial system. 
 
¶37. Set up new federal courts (in areas where the workload is 
higher). (14 months) 
 
¶38. Establish special control courts with jurisdiction over 
the entire country to review requests for and issue search 
warrants and wire tap orders and review the constitutionality 
of those requests.  (4 months) 
 
¶39. Ensure a speedy trial. (30 days) 
 
Narcotrafficking and organized criminal cases will be 
expedited and the accused will be sent directly to a maximum 
 
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security facility during their trial.  Judges and trials for 
narcotrafficking and organized criminal cases will take place 
in those maximum security prisons to reduce the risk of 
prisoner escape during transfer. 
 
¶40. Strengthen the autonomy, independence, and impartiality 
of judges and magistrates. (Permanent process) 
 
In coordination with state and federal authorities, the 
Federal Judiciary Council will set up services of protection 
to federal judges so that they are less subject to violence 
and threats that could affect their decision - particularly 
in cases where organized crime is involved. 
 
¶41. Strengthen the system of selecting judges and 
magistrates. (30 months) 
 
¶42. Intensify the capacity and specialization of judges on 
penal issues (through regular training). (Permanent) 
 
¶43. Continue performance evaluations of judges specializing 
in juvenile cases. (30 months) 
 
¶44. Strengthen the system for monitoring criminals on parole 
(through the installation of a biometric monitoring system 
throughout Mexico).  (6 months) 
 
¶45. Standardize judicial information in order to have a 
better coordination between authorities. (2 years) 
 
In conjunction with Federal Judiciary Council, federal and 
state authorities will create a National System of Judicial 
Statistics that will collect, organize, and share information 
with authorities and the public.  This information will 
include the stages of a trial, duration, crimes and 
sentences. 
 
State Government Commitments: 
 
¶46. Purge and strengthen security and law enforcement 
institutions. 
 
-- Create and strengthen a certified center for evaluation 
and confidence control (i.e. vetting) in their state. (1 year) 
 
-- Evaluate and vet all state personnel in police, law 
enforcement, and prison institutions.  In states where there 
is no certified vetting center in place, the federal 
government will administer the necessary evaluations. (6 
months) 
 
-- Attorney Generals and Public Security Secretaries will 
refine the capacity and selection methods in police and law 
enforcement institutions. (6 months) 
 
-- Increase and label the allocation of resources toward the 
operation and development of police and law enforcement 
institutions.  (1 year) 
 
-- Replicate the national system of police development at the 
state level and the use of evaluations and vetting in state 
institutions. (1 year) 
 
-- Replicate the federal scheme of vetting public ministries. 
(1 year) 
 
¶47. Reassign resources in state budgets toward improving the 
efficiency of security and law enforcement systems.  The use 
of these resources will be accompanied by operational rules 
or effective and transparent procedures. (Include in the 2009 
budget of each state.) 
 
¶48. Create, develop, and strengthen specialized vetted units 
to combat kidnapping. (6 months) 
 
¶49. Governors will submit to their respective legislative 
assemblies a bill of a State Public Security Law, 
consistent with the General Law of the National Public 
Security System that the federal Congress will approve. (6 
months after the approval of the General Law of the National 
Public Security System) 
 
¶50. Incorporate and implement the Sole System of Criminal 
 
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Information within Platform Mexico.  (1 year) 
 
They also agree to improve the following databases:  vehicle 
registration, license issuances, police/ex-police, 
prisoner/ex-convict, warden, prosecutors, and arms 
registrations. 
 
¶51.  Develop state programs that incorporate the social 
component to the security strategy. (December 31, 2008) 
 
In collaboration with the Social Development Secretariat, 
state officials will devote more resources to the Rescuing 
Public Spaces program.  The objective of this program is to 
rehabilitate public spaces located in urban zones with high 
crime that are deteriorated, abandoned, or unsafe.  In 
collaboration with the Public Education Secretariat, state 
officials will apply more resources toward the Safe Schools 
Program. In collaboration with the Health Secretariat, state 
official will apply more resources to the New Life Attention 
Centers program, which is a rehabilitation center/program for 
those suffering from addictions. 
 
¶52.  Establish evaluations and indicators/statistics (3 
months) 
 
State officials will create evaluations and statistics on the 
performance of police and law enforcement institutions.  The 
indicators will coincide with the mythology of those at the 
national level and will include citizen participation. 
 
¶53.  Establish a public information system on programs, 
actions, results, and the spending of public resources on 
public security and law enforcement issues.  Such an 
information system will have a citizen oversight component. 
 
Municipal Government Commitments: 
 
¶54.  Purge and strengthen security and law enforcement 
institutions. (1 year) 
 
In coordination with the Attorney General's office and Public 
Security Secretariat of their state, as well as state and 
national Evaluation and Vetting Centers, municipal 
governments will develop the capacity and selection of 
municipal police. 
 
-- Evaluate and vet all personnel in the municipal police and 
prisons.  (1 year for municipalities participating in the 
SUBSEMUN subsidy program; 2 years for other municipalities) 
 
-- Condition municipal police jobs on evaluations and vetting 
exams. (1 year) 
 
-- With the support of the federal SSP and state government, 
municipalities will establish a system to professionalize 
police, creating a civil service career to regulate the 
selection, income, training, evaluation, recognition, 
certification, and retirement of police. 
 
¶55. Interconnection to the systems and protocols of Platform 
Mexico for registry, access, and analysis of substantive 
information. (6 months for the 150 municipalities that 
receive the SUBSEMUN subsidy; 2 years for all other 
municipalities.) 
 
¶56. Develop and implement standardized protocols of police 
procedures/operations. (1 year) 
 
¶57. Update and standardize firearms licenses and the registry 
of personnel into the database ("cardex") of Platform Mexico. 
 
¶58.  Update and adapt municipal rules to improve public 
security conditions. (6 months) 
 
¶59.  Develop a municipal program that incorporates the social 
component in the security strategy. (6 months) 
 
Will create local social programs on security, education, 
health, prevention and treatment of addictions to interact 
with the federal government in the implementation of the 
Clean Mexico (Limpiemos Mexico) program, the Rescuing Public 
Spaces (Rescate de Espacios Publicos) program, the Secure 
Schools (Escuelas Seguras) program, as well as the Prevention 
 
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and Treatment of Addictions program. 
 
¶60.  Establish evaluation and follow up indicators.  (6 
months) 
 
Municipal officials will create evaluations and statistics on 
the performance of police and law enforcement institutions. 
The indicators will coincide with the mythology of those at 
the national level and will include citizen participation. 
 
¶61.  Reassign resources in municipal budgets toward improving 
the efficiency of security and law enforcement systems.  The 
use of these resources will be accompanied by operational 
rules or effective and transparent procedures. (Include in 
the 2009 budget of each municipality.) 
 
Private Sector Commitments: 
 
¶62. Promote a culture of lawfulness, the reporting of crimes, 
and citizen participation among private sector employers, 
unions, and workers (6 months) 
 
¶63. Promote and facilitate the systematic reporting of any 
crime or labor injustice.  Provide employees with the tools 
and phone numbers through which to lodge such complaints. (1 
year) 
 
¶64. Adapt electronic registries of workers, suppliers and 
clients to the norms of the National Population Registry to 
prevent fraud and identity theft.  (2 years) 
 
The country's employers, with the support of their employees, 
commit to fully coordinate their registries with the National 
Cedula database. 
 
¶65. Encourage a secure work environment.  (1 year) 
 
The country's employers, with the support of workers and the 
authorities, commit to improving conditions in workplace and 
common use areas. 
 
Religious Associations Commitments: 
 
¶66. Promote a culture of lawfulness, the practice of 
reporting crimes, and citizen participation among members of 
religious associations.  (6 months) 
 
¶67. Encourage the culture of lawfulness and security, the 
practice of reporting crimes, the fight against addictions, 
human rights, and transparency in outreach projects, 
buildings, churches, and places of worship.  (6 months) 
 
Civil Society Commitments: 
 
¶68. Promote a culture of lawfulness, the practice of 
reporting crimes, and citizen participation among members of 
civil society organizations.  (6 months) 
 
¶69. Develop and support local programs that incorporate a 
social dimension into the security strategy. (6 months) 
 
In line with the security strategy, civil society 
organizations commit to introducing citizen programs into the 
areas of education, health, and social development for the 
purpose of assisting the federal government with the 
implementation of "Limpiemos Mexico." 
 
¶70. Participate in the creation and strengthening of 
mechanisms to monitor and evaluate authorities to eliminate 
corruption and increase efficiency and social recognition. 
(1 year) 
 
Civil society organizations commit to promoting the active 
and autonomous participation of citizens in one hundred 
percent of the requests for evaluation and monitoring of 
government actions. 
 
Media Commitments: 
 
¶71. Increase content that encourages a culture of lawfulness. 
 
 
The media will increase the broadcast of content and 
 
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campaigns that praise the positive consequences of following 
the law, accountability, and reporting crimes. 
 
¶72. Increase content that encourages the prevention of and 
attention to addictions. 
 
The media commits to broadcasting content that exhorts the 
importance of preventing the consumption of drugs and the 
fundamental role parents play in the health of their 
children.  They are also committed to publicizing addiction 
prevention and treatment centers with the purpose of 
highlighting their social usefulness.  Likewise, the media 
will inform how the prevention of addiction affects the fight 
against narcotrafficking by reducing demand.  The media will 
explain before public opinion the advantages of orchestrating 
integral social-political and security programs, as well as 
other successful actions undertaken by family organizations, 
schools, and/or professionals. 
 
¶73. Increase content that encourages a culture of security 
and the practice of reporting crimes. 
 
The media will emphasize the importance of co-responsibility 
between society and government in the fight against organized 
crime to sensitize the population to the fact that the 
absence of participation only strengthens crime; the 
importance of active participation by neighborhood 
associations to the extent that they help to generate secure 
practices and a practice of reporting crimes; highlight the 
value of reporting a crime to the appropriate authority even 
if it is done anonymously; broadcast successful cases of 
citizens reporting crimes that have led to apprehensions and 
sentencing; broadcast the institutional channels and phone 
numbers of federal, state, and local authorities through 
which the public reports crimes at the federal and community 
level. 
 
¶74. Media outlets will define and publicize professional 
performance standards for its informative coverage to prevent 
the justification of crime, to promote respect for the 
dignity of the victims, to avoid the broadcast of information 
that puts victims' family members and close associates at 
risk, and to establish criteria that defines the case in 
which the publication of information can be undertaken 
without attributing it to specific reporters to protect their 
integrity. 
 
¶75. National, state, and local media will provide timely 
coverage of the agreements resulting from the National Public 
Security Council session by each of the signatories of the 
National Security, Lawfulness, and Justice Agreement.  It is 
proposed that every outlet take into account the indicators 
agreed to in the framework of the Council and follow the 
agreements signed by the various authorities. 
 
 
 
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