Another Mexican Public Safety Agent Killed

Another Mexican Public Safety Agent Killed

Continuing violence on the rise in this region of the state

This article appeared in El Ágora de Chihuahua on August 7, 2008. This translation is rendered as closely as possible to the original wording. (See the orginal article here).

Juárez – August 7, 2008 – Another agent belonging to the Municipal Secretariat of Public Security was executed this morning around 6:30 am onboard his vehicle in the colony ''North Division.'' Unofficially, he was identified as Hector Galot, who belonged to the Táctcal Delta Force and had just finished his shift at Chihuahua Station.

Neighbors in the area of Private Pascual Ortiz Street, said that apparently they (the hitmen) did not live in that area, however the red vehicle was constantly seen in the area.

Also, according to witnesses, there were at least two units which participated in the crime with heavily armed men on board.

With this crime, it adds up to 23 municipal policemen killed in this year, three traffic agents, an equal number of officers from the Cipol (Chihuahua Preventative Police), 5 from the State Agency of Investigations, one of the Federal Preventive Police and a sergeant of the Mexican Army.

Meanwhile, arrests of the killers remains at zero for these cases.

The impunity that exists with regard to crimes of the various agencies' officers encourages them to continue occurring on the city streets, according to the same witnesses who see how officers are riddled (filled with holes) in broad daylight. Instead of the Medical Service, Forensics Agents arrived to remove the body which received several shots from a firearm.