Riviera Maya, Q.R. — The State Attorney General’s Office and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) formalized a Technical Cooperation Agreement on human identification. The agreement aims to establish inter-institutional coordination to implement the bases and mechanisms for collaboration and technical advice on forensic identification.
The Quintana Roo State Attorney General Raciel López Salazar, expressed his gratitude for Governor Mara Lezama’s strong support for the continued improvement of this autonomous agency. He also acknowledged the collaboration of UNFPA and noted that the signed program aims to complement federal and state efforts to achieve greater recognition of unidentified deceased persons by establishing a national fingerprint matching system.
“With this, we can provide families with certainty about the whereabouts of their loved ones so they can have the comfort of giving the deceased a dignified ending. All of this in cooperation with the National Search Commission and its National Human Identification Center,” he said.
Maximilian Murck, Coordinating Officer of the Human Identification Program, representing UNFPA, acknowledged the cooperation of Attorney General Raciel López Salazar and the commitment to human identification by the National Commissioner for the Search for Persons, Teresa Guadalupe Reyes Sahagún.
“In the National Police Forces files there are deceased individuals who had not been identified, so now, the Attorney General’s Office can use fingerprint matching as an identification tool so that families searching for their loved ones will no longer have to endure this suffering.”
Likewise, Anet Silvia Grace Arens Medina, Honorary Consul of Germany in Cancun, expressed her gratitude for the program’s implementation, emphasizing that achieving positive results is very satisfying as it brings great social relief.
“It’s important for everyone to be able to cooperate to make prompt and effective decisions with a strong will and openness to move forward in this matter.”
