Forces are called to unity to guarantee national security

Marco Antonio Ramirez Tenorio, commander of the Eighth Armored Reconnaissance Regiment of the SEDENA, urges to stop being reactive and start being preventive

Public Security officials from municipalities and operational staff from the Secretary of Security and Peace meet with the representative of SEDENA

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“The articulation of the institutional powers of the governing bodies, municipal, state and federal police forces helps maintain national security, ensure development and ensure that we are all clear that the objective is Mexico”, said Colonel Marco Antonio Ramirez Tenorio, commander of the Eighth Armored Reconnaissance Regiment of the National Defense Secretary (SEDENA), of the Armored Branch of the General Staff.

Heading a meeting with Municipal Public Security Officers and Operational Staff of the Secretary of Security and Peace, where he gave a lecture on “National Security,” the colonel of the Armored Branch of the General Staff said that everyone, in their respective areas and powers, is responsible for ensuring that there is security, peace and order in Mexico.

Ramirez said that the objective of security institutions is, precisely, to guarantee security by preserving order, peace and integrity; however, he explained, in the municipalities the needs have changed: if before they focused on guaranteeing the observance of the Police and Good Government Ordinance, now they must attend to short-term objectives, such as containing drug dealing and crimes related to drug trafficking.

Given the current challenges, he considered it necessary to migrate from the perception that security forces are permanently reactive to understanding national security as an action of preventive capacity, through information and intelligence gathering corps.

Ramirez spoke about concepts such as the Rule of Law, internal security and public security before an audience of more than 90 attendees and added that through the national security program they seek to disseminate the terms and elements that constitute the concept of national security, and outline why the Mexican Army carries out all its activities with the objective of strengthening the country with the exercise of government, the effective use of its systems and the articulation of what generates a power capable of causing development.

The colonel of the Armored Branch of the General Staff, Marco Antonio Ramirez Tenorio, said that it is not about one security body doing what corresponds to another, but rather each one acting as it is authorized to do, but with the same objective, because “the articulation of powers helps maintain national security and under this logic it is a shared responsibility.”

Elia Barbara Lugo Delgado, head of the Undersecretary of Prevention of the Secretary of Security and Peace, noted the willingness of the commander of the Eighth Armored Reconnaissance Regiment of the SEDENA and all the attendees to work together for a Mexico and a Guanajuato in peace.

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