Federal Investigations Agency

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The Federal Investigations Agency (Agencia Federal de Investigación in Spanish, also AFI) is an elite Mexican federal agency set up on November 1, 2001 to fight corruption and organized crime, through an executive order by Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada. The AFI replaced an earlier agency, the Federal Judicial Police. The agency is directed by the Mexican Attorney General's Office and may have been partly modeled on the FBI of the United States. AFI is differentiated strictly from other Mexican law enforcement agencies to stop possible "contamination" or corruption by older personnel of other government organizations. Vicente Fox is said to visit every AFI academy graduation.

AFI agents in action often wear masks to prevent themselves from being identified by gang leaders. While AFI agents are uniformed when carrying out raids, "street-level" uniformed federal police patrols and transport terminal security are handled by the Federal Preventative Police rather than the AFI.