Cozumel, Q.R. — Cozumel City Council has unanimously approved the official appointment of a new Director of Public Safety. On Tuesday, Captain Fernando González Felipe was sworn in for the new position during the sixty-eighth session of the City Council.
Prior to the swearing in, Mayor Juanita Alonso participated in the voting after which the General Secretary, Ociel González González, announced the unanimous approval of the new director.
During the ceremony, Fernando González Felipe promised to work vigorously with discipline and total dedication to the island community, collaborating with authorities from different levels of government including the Navy (Semar), National Defense (Sedena), National Guard, Citizen Security Secretariat and other corporations.
Part of his new duties will include implementing new programs, plans, tours and continuing projects that have yielded positive results.
“We are going to implement more patrols and more security checkpoints to reduce the crime rate on the island… As citizens, we have responsibilities to fulfill, to keep our vehicles in order, drive properly and obey the signs and instructions so that our island is safer for our families,” he said.
The Cozumel Gobierno also announced the new director. “The Cozumel collegiate body unanimously approved the official appointment as director of Public Safety and Traffic of the corvette captain, marine infantry, parachutist, Fernando González Felipe, within the framework of the Sixty-eighth ordinary session of the City Council headed by the municipal president, Juanita Alonso.”
