Secretariat of Public Security (Mexico)

Mexico
Secretariat of Public Security
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Agency overview
Formed 2000
Jurisdiction Mexico
Headquarters Avenida Constituyentes 947, Ex Hacienda de Belem, Deleg. Alvaro Obregón. Mexico City
Employees 21,600
Annual budget $126 million (2010)
Agency executives Genaro García Luna, Secretary[1]
Jane Holl Lute
Child agency Federal Police (Mexico)
Website
ssp.gov

The Secretariat of Public Security of Mexico (Spanish: Secretaría de Seguridad Pública; SSP), also translated as the Secretariat of Public Safety, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Public Safety, is the federal ministry of the Mexican Executive Cabinet[2] which aims to preserve freedom, order and public peace, and safeguard the integrity and rights of the people, the Assistant Attorney General and Powers of the Union, to prevent the commission of crimes, develop public security policy of the Federal Executive and propose policy on crime, administer the federal prison system, and for the treatment of juvenile offenders, in terms of the powers him by the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration[2] and other federal laws and regulations, decrees, agreements and orders of the President of the Republic. It has its headquarters in Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City.[3]

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Functions

The Secretariat will plan and conduct their activities in accordance with the objectives, strategies and priorities, National Development Plans and the National Program are issued by the Head of the Federal Executive.

According to Organic Law of the Federal Civil Service in its 'Article 30a' has an office on the following main functions:

Organization

For the study, planning, and dispatching of the matters within its competence, the Secretariat will be composed of the following administrative units and bodies:

I. Subsecretary Strategy and Police Intelligence;

II. Subsecretary Prevention, Linkage and Human Rights;

III. Subsecretary Federal Prison System;

IV. Subsecretary Assessment and Institutional Development;

V. Major Official;

VI. General Coordination of Legal Affairs;

VII. General Coordination of Mexico Shelf;

VIII. General Directorate of Social Communication;

IX. Directorate General for International Affairs;

X. Directorate General for Coordination and Development of State and Municipal police;

XI. Directorate General of Private Security;

XII. General Crime Prevention;

XIII. DG Entailment and Civic Participation;

XIV. Directorate General of Human Rights;

XV. General Directorate of Standardization and Development Facility;

XVI. General Directorate of Security Transfer of Offenders and Prison;

XVII. Directorate General of Planning and Evaluation;

XVIII. Directorate General of Transparency and Regulatory Improvement;

XIX. General Directorate of Professional Police Career and regulations;

XX. Directorate General of Planning and Budget Organization;

XXI. Directorate General of Human Resources;

XXII. Department of Material Resources and General Services;

XXIII. Directorate General of Public Works and Services;

XXIV. Directorate General of Administrative Systems and

XXV. Decentralized administrative bodies:

a) Federal Police;

b) Executive Secretary of the National System of Public Security;

c) Prevention and Social Rehabilitation and

d) Council of Children.

List of Secretaries of Public Security of Mexico

See also

Mexico portal
Law enforcement portal

References

  1. ^ [1], Accessed 2011-07-19.
  2. ^ a b Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration, Article 26
  3. ^ "About the SSP." Secretariat of Public Security. Retrieved on December 12, 2010. "Ave.Constituyentes No. 947 floor, Col. Belén de las Flores, Del. Álvaro Obregón, C.P. 01110, Mexico, D.F."

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