Federal Ministerial Police

The Federal Ministerial Police (Spanish: Policía Federal Ministerial, PFM) is a Mexican federal agency tasked with fighting corruption and organized crime, through an executive order by President Felipe Calderón. The agency is directed by the Attorney General's Office (FGR) and may have been partly modeled on the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States. PFM agents in action often wear masks to prevent themselves from being identified by gang leaders. PFM agents are uniformed when carrying out raids.

Federal Ministerial Police Policía Federal Ministerial
Abbreviation	PFM
Agency overview
Formed	30 May 2009; 16 years ago (2009-05-30)
Preceding agency	Agencia Federal de Investigación
Employees	8,500[1]
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency	Mexico
Operations jurisdiction	Mexico
Constituting instrument	Decree of the Union Executive on November 1, 2001
General nature	Federal law enforcement
Operational structure
Headquarters	Mexico City, Mexico
Parent agency	Criminal Investigation Agency[2]
Website
www.pgr.gob.mx (Spanish)

"Street-level" uniformed federal police patrols and transport terminal security are handled by the service personnel of the National Guard.

History

It was formed in 2009 as a reform and renaming of the Federal Investigative Agency (Agencia Federal de Investigación or AFI) which had replaced an earlier agency, the Federal Judicial Police. Some agents of the Federal Investigations Agency were believed to work as enforcers for the Sinaloa Cartel. The Attorney General's Office reported in December 2005 that 1,500 of 7,000 AFI agents — nearly 25% of the force — were under investigation for suspected criminal activity and 457 were facing charges.^[3][4]

In November 2008, Rodolfo de la Guardia García, the No. 2 official in the AFI from 2003 to 2005, was placed under arrest as investigators looked into the possibility that he leaked information to the Sinaloa Cartel in return for monthly payments.^[5]

On 29 May 2009, the Federal Investigations Agency was restructured and renamed.^[6]

Organization

• General Directorate of Ministerial and Judicial Mandates
• General Directorate of Special Security Services and Protection of Persons
• General Directorate of Police Investigation In Support of Mandates
• General Directorate of International Police Matters - Interpol
• General Directorate of Communications Center
• General Directorate of Technical Support and Logisti

See also

AFI agents in Michoacán

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• Civil Police (Brazil)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Federales
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• Federal Security Service (Russia)
• Guardia di Finanza
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• People's Armed Police
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
• Scotland Yard
• Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)