Cancun, Q.R. — The city of Cancun has added another 400 trained police officers to its municipal count. On Tuesday, Mayor Ana Paty Peralta led the Incorporation Ceremony in which 400 municipal police officers were formally integrated.
According to Peralta, the incorporation included 220 operational and 180 administrative officers, one of the central pillars of the current administration’s institutional strengthening project.
The ceremony was held at the Municipal Secretariat of Citizen Security and Transit (SMSCyT) where Mayor Peralta emphasized that the historic step in dignifying the police force, guaranteeing better working conditions, stability, access to ongoing training and greater opportunities for professional growth.
“The police officers of Cancun deserve a public service that supports them, advances their careers and recognizes their daily dedication to the safety of families,” she said.
She said the incorporation of the 400 officers placing Benito Juárez among the municipalities with the most progress in consolidating a professionalized police model.
She also stated that with this incorporation, the municipality now has 1,441 officers within the Professional Career Service, while 346 other civil service officers continue their transition process.
Julio César Gómez Torres, the State Secretary of Citizen Security, said that the Professional Career Service represents a standardized system of entry, permanence and promotion that improves working conditions and allows for the consolidation of a police force with greater specialization, a human rights perspective and equality.
The head of the SMSCyT, Jaime Padilla Barrientos, explained that in order to meet the entry criteria, the elements successfully passed evaluations of trust control, initial training, basic skills, performance and required academics.
