Mexico will have a new 10,000-member security force that will be deployed to regions of the country where violence and instability are greatest, President Enrique Peña Nieto said Monday, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The president said at a meeting of the National Public Security Council that the force would consist of 10,000 members to start, although he did not say when it would be created. For the moment, the military will remain in the streets in an effort to maintain order, and the federal police will add 15 units focusing solely on kidnapping and extortion, Peña Nieto says.