Mexico’s President to scrap Police Force

(Vatican Radio)  Mexico's President has announced a plan to scrap the country's 1,800 Municipal Police Forces, replacing them with State Police Units, in order to combat the infiltration of organized crime. James Blears reports that he made the announcement during a meeting of State Governors in a nationwide broadcast.

President Enrique Peña Nieto's law and order reform proposals will go before Mexico's Congress next week. They follow the disappearance of 43 student teachers who were arrested by Municipal Police in the Southern City of Iguala on September 26th. Those Police officers then handed over the students to a drug gang who's arrested members say they massacred them and incinerated their bodies beyond recognition.

President Peña Nieto is also proposing to dissolve local governments, which are proved to have been corrupted by the drug cartels. These radical changes would initially be launched in Mexico's States of Tamaulipas, Michocan, Jalisco and Guerrero, which are the worst affected by the violence in the country's eight year ongoing Drug War that has killed more than 100,000 people.  The President also says that different lists of missing people are now going to be unified.