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A 20-year-old criminology student has been named the chief of police in one of the most dangerous municipalities in Mexico's violence-wracked northern state of Chihuahua.

Marisol Valles Garcia, the only person to accept the post, took charge of public security for Guadalupe Distrito Bravo on Monday, according to radio station network Notisistema. The district has a population of 9,148 residents, according to newspaper La Jornada, and comes with at least one police car, Notisistema reported.

The state of Chihuahua has borne the brunt of spiraling drug-related violence that has left around 28,000 dead throughout Mexico in the last four years. Guadalupe's former mayor was assassinated in June, and local police have been kidnapped and murdered. At least eight people were slain in the last week alone in Guadalupe, news.com.au reported.

The tiny but energetic Valles Garcia says she wants her 12 officers to practice a special brand of community policing.

"My people are out there going door to door, looking for criminals, and (in homes) where there are none, trying to teach values to the families," she said before she was presented to the public on Wednesday.

Valles said during her swearing in that her job will not be to fight drug trafficking because that responsibility falls on other organs of government, according to Notisistema.  Instead, she will focus on preventative programs for schools and neighborhoods, rehabilitating public spaces and fostering better relationships between neighbors in order to improve general security, according to Notisistema.

She has not discarded the possibility of creating a cycling police force, according to Notisistema.

Guadalupe lies in the Valle de Juarez, which is thought to be controlled by Gabino Salas Valenciano, aka The Engineer, La Jornada reported. Salas is part of the the Sinaloa cartel, which is led by Joaquin El Chapo Guzman.

Local residents say the drug gangs take over at night, riding through the towns in convoys of SUVs and pickups, assault rifles and even .50 caliber sniper rifles at the ready. The assistant mayor of nearby El Porvenir and the mayor of Distrito Bravos were killed recently even after they took refuge in nearby Ciudad Juarez.

Drug cartels in many drug-plagued parts of Mexico have killed or threatened police chiefs and their departments, buying off some officers and prompting some others to quit en masse.

While the bullet holes that pockmarked police headquarters in Praxedis have been painted over, police buildings in other towns in the valley remain empty, with broken windows and few sign of life.

In past months, soldiers and then federal police largely took over patrols, but they stick mainly to the main road, afraid to venture down unfamiliar dirt roads that branch off into the valley and are well-traveled by drug traffickers.

"Let's hope it is not a reckless act on her part," said Miguel Sarre, a professor who specializes in Mexican law enforcement at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. He said that "a municipal police force cannot protect itself against such powerful forces."

Mexico's federal government has struggled to cope with the drug cartel threat to the underpaid, untrained and often corrupt local police that work for Mexico's roughly 2,022 municipal police forces.

President Felipe Calderon has recognized the problem faced by local police forces, whose officers earn average monthly salaries of only 4,000 pesos (about $300). Most of them have completed less than 10 years of schooling and are either at basic education levels or illiterate, according to the report.

In some cities and towns, entire municipal forces have been fired or arrested for allegedly cooperating with drug gangs, and officials say their low wages and poor weaponry — most use shotguns and pistols, while drug gangs have assault rifles — make them ineffectual or worse.

Calderon has proposed a "unified command" structure in which Mexico's 32 state governments would have state police take on the main responsibility, backed up by federal officers and soldiers where needed.

Observers like Sarre generally support that idea, given the vulnerability and lack of trustworthiness of local forces. "As long as there is no broad solution, municipal police forces will have to be substituted by state and federal forces," he said.

Two bodyguards have been assigned to protect Valles Garcia. While the cartels have been more than able to penetrate much tighter security details — killing mayors and police chiefs throughout northern Mexico —she says she isn't afraid.

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Re: She brave! 20 Year old student appointed chief of police of Mexican town
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2010, 04:57:44 PM »
any bets how long she going to live?
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Re: She brave! 20 Year old student appointed chief of police of Mexican town
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2010, 05:49:03 PM »
 :-\ few months at best
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Re: She brave! 20 Year old student appointed chief of police of Mexican town
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2010, 06:30:26 PM »
She ent have nutten to worry about, she safe.  She also demonstrating wisdom beyond her age in the process.

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Re: She brave! 20 Year old student appointed chief of police of Mexican town
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2010, 06:51:08 PM »
She will be safe as long as she sticks with the concept of community policing. But policing that world is fraught with minefields...its not that hard to get sucked into the vortex of politics and concession. top notch job experience for a student.
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Re: She brave! 20 Year old student appointed chief of police of Mexican town
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2010, 07:05:48 PM »
She will be safe as long as she sticks with the concept of community policing. But policing that world is fraught with minefields...its not that hard to get sucked into the vortex of politics and concession. top notch job experience for a student.

She done disclaim any interest in/responsibility for prosecuting the war on drugs... nor would one really expect her 12-man force to so do.  Not to be too dismissive but she's a glorified mall cop... or as we does call them in TnT... estate constable.

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Re: She brave! 20 Year old student appointed chief of police of Mexican town
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2010, 07:11:14 PM »
She will be safe as long as she sticks with the concept of community policing. But policing that world is fraught with minefields...its not that hard to get sucked into the vortex of politics and concession. top notch job experience for a student.

She done disclaim any interest in/responsibility for prosecuting the war on drugs... nor would one really expect her 12-man force to so do.  Not to be too dismissive but she's a glorified mall cop... or as we does call them in TnT... estate constable.

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Re: She brave! 20 Year old student appointed chief of police of Mexican town
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2010, 07:45:08 PM »
She will be safe as long as she sticks with the concept of community policing. But policing that world is fraught with minefields...its not that hard to get sucked into the vortex of politics and concession. top notch job experience for a student.

She done disclaim any interest in/responsibility for prosecuting the war on drugs... nor would one really expect her 12-man force to so do.  Not to be too dismissive but she's a glorified mall cop... or as we does call them in TnT... estate constable.

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Re: She brave! 20 Year old student appointed chief of police of Mexican town
« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2010, 07:53:09 AM »
There is a rumour that she is actually one of them big drug lord daughter... i ent know how much stock to put in that talk
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Re: She brave! 20 Year old student appointed chief of police of Mexican town
« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2010, 09:20:33 AM »
There is a rumour that she is actually one of them big drug lord daughter... i ent know how much stock to put in that talk

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         yuh kinder pick my thoughts there. I was wondering if the dealers set she up for that position. Them dealers ruthless. I can't see how they will let she manners them. I feel they set she up to look the other way. But good luck to her. If she bring law and order to the town, I will recommend her for sainthood.

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Re: She brave! 20 Year old student appointed chief of police of Mexican town
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2010, 10:31:02 AM »
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Re: She brave! 20 Year old student appointed chief of police of Mexican town
« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2010, 10:36:43 AM »
There is a rumour that she is actually one of them big drug lord daughter... i ent know how much stock to put in that talk

If dais de case dem one of them opposin cartel will look to claim some territory
either way it cyah be no 'normal' 20 year old who would even consider dat wukk
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Female police chief flees Mexico

A 20-year-old college student hired as police chief of a Mexican border town is reportedly seeking asylum in the United States.

Marisol Valles Garcia "received death threats from a criminal group that wanted to force her to work for them," a relative told AFP news service on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity. She "went to the United States along with two relatives and will seek asylum."


Andres Morales, a spokesman for the town of Praxedis G. Guerrero, said Valles Garcia was expected back at work on Monday after taking some time off to deal with family matters."Right now, these are rumors," he said of the asylum report, according to the El Paso Times.

But he acknowledged that Valles Garcia had gone to the United States, saying it was to seek medical treatment for her infant son, who has a lung ailment.

"If she doesn't return to work (on Monday) she could be removed," the El Diario newspaper quoted Morales as saying, "though that would be up to the mayor."

Some reports said Valles Garcia left with her son and husband on Feb. 28, going across the border to Fort Hancock, Texas.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which handles asylum requests, did not immediately return a call regarding whether Valles Garcia had sought asylum.

Valles Garcia became police chief in Praxedis G. Guerrero  — home to some 10,000 people — after two other job candidates dropped out following the killing of the mayor and his son.

Now widely known as "the bravest woman in Mexico," she was studying criminology in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city, when she was appointed last October.


Word of Valles Garcia's apparent departure comes after Erika Gandara, a female officer and the sole representative of the law in the border town of Guadalupe, was kidnapped in December. Her fate is unknown.
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Female police chief flees Mexico

A 20-year-old college student hired as police chief of a Mexican border town is reportedly seeking asylum in the United States.

Marisol Valles Garcia "received death threats from a criminal group that wanted to force her to work for them," a relative told AFP news service on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity. She "went to the United States along with two relatives and will seek asylum."


Andres Morales, a spokesman for the town of Praxedis G. Guerrero, said Valles Garcia was expected back at work on Monday after taking some time off to deal with family matters."Right now, these are rumors," he said of the asylum report, according to the El Paso Times.

But he acknowledged that Valles Garcia had gone to the United States, saying it was to seek medical treatment for her infant son, who has a lung ailment.

"If she doesn't return to work (on Monday) she could be removed," the El Diario newspaper quoted Morales as saying, "though that would be up to the mayor."

Some reports said Valles Garcia left with her son and husband on Feb. 28, going across the border to Fort Hancock, Texas.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which handles asylum requests, did not immediately return a call regarding whether Valles Garcia had sought asylum.

Valles Garcia became police chief in Praxedis G. Guerrero  — home to some 10,000 people — after two other job candidates dropped out following the killing of the mayor and his son.

Now widely known as "the bravest woman in Mexico," she was studying criminology in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city, when she was appointed last October.


Word of Valles Garcia's apparent departure comes after Erika Gandara, a female officer and the sole representative of the law in the border town of Guadalupe, was kidnapped in December. Her fate is unknown.
http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/msnbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=27890913

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She have a good few months experience. She could apply to head the SIA.
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Female police chief flees Mexico

A 20-year-old college student hired as police chief of a Mexican border town is reportedly seeking asylum in the United States.

Marisol Valles Garcia "received death threats from a criminal group that wanted to force her to work for them," a relative told AFP news service on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity. She "went to the United States along with two relatives and will seek asylum."


Andres Morales, a spokesman for the town of Praxedis G. Guerrero, said Valles Garcia was expected back at work on Monday after taking some time off to deal with family matters."Right now, these are rumors," he said of the asylum report, according to the El Paso Times.

But he acknowledged that Valles Garcia had gone to the United States, saying it was to seek medical treatment for her infant son, who has a lung ailment.

"If she doesn't return to work (on Monday) she could be removed," the El Diario newspaper quoted Morales as saying, "though that would be up to the mayor."

Some reports said Valles Garcia left with her son and husband on Feb. 28, going across the border to Fort Hancock, Texas.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which handles asylum requests, did not immediately return a call regarding whether Valles Garcia had sought asylum.

Valles Garcia became police chief in Praxedis G. Guerrero  — home to some 10,000 people — after two other job candidates dropped out following the killing of the mayor and his son.

Now widely known as "the bravest woman in Mexico," she was studying criminology in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city, when she was appointed last October.


Word of Valles Garcia's apparent departure comes after Erika Gandara, a female officer and the sole representative of the law in the border town of Guadalupe, was kidnapped in December. Her fate is unknown.
http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/msnbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=27890913

Beats swimming across the Rio Grande or hiking in de desert... juss take ah police gig in Juarez and ride it fuh ah couple months.

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hahahaha she make ah good plan and if she get through with de petition well den.

 

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