"El Choclo" for Borderland Beat
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| Chiapas police are the worst paid in the country. Police in 18 states are paid less than the amount determined to be a living wage. |
The federal government has determined that the average salary of police officers in Mexico should be 13,639 pesos (US $680) per month.
The National Public Security System (SNSP) and the National Minimum Wage Commission (Conasami) completed a study that found that state and municipal police as well as prison guards need to earn that amount, on average, to be able to satisfy their needs and those of their family with regard to diet, footwear, housing, health, education and recreation.
The study, whose findings were published in a report entitled A Living Wage for Police in Mexico, took a range of factors into account including officers’ age, gender, marital status, education level and government welfare support they receive as well as prices of essential goods and services in each of the country’s 32 states.
The SNSP and Conasami concluded that police in Veracruz can cover their expenses with the least amount of money while those in Quintana Roo need the highest.
“A living wage that will allow families of police to cover their most basic needs ranges between 8,651 pesos (Veracruz) and 18,024 (Quintana Roo) with a national average of 13,639,” the report said.
“The difference is due to the composition of [police] families in each state,” it added.
The study found that 14 states currently pay police salaries that are higher than the amount determined to be a living wage in each entity while the other 18 do not.
Those in the former category are San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Jalisco, Baja California, Querétaro, Zacatecas, Veracruz, Sinaloa, Durango, Yucatán, Nuevo León and Hidalgo.
Police in San Luis Potosí earn the highest wages in the country: officer receives a net salary of 21,091 pesos (US $1,053) per month on average. That’s almost 90% higher than the amount determined to be a living wage in that state.
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| Low wages have been cited as a major reason for high levels of collusion between criminal organizations and police forces. |
Across Mexico, police are currently paid 13,283 pesos per month on average, 356 pesos below the national living wage threshold, the report said. Police in Tamaulipas, Quintana Roo and Aguascalientes earn more than that amount on average but their salaries are lower than the living wages in those states as determined by the SNSP and Conasami.
Police in Nuevo León and Hidalgo earn less on average than the national living wage but their salaries exceed the living wages determined for those two states.
Mexico City is one of the 18 states where police earn less than a living wage. Officers in the capital earn 11,705 pesos per month on average but a living wage was determined to be 21% higher at 14,221 pesos. Mexico’s worst paid police are those in Chiapas, where the average monthly salary is just 6,357 pesos ($318). However, a living wage in the southern state is 64% higher at 10,413 pesos, according to the report.
Police in Tabasco, the second worst paid in the country, are even worse off. Their average monthly salary is 6,415 pesos but the state’s living wage is 116% higher at 13,871 pesos.
Low wages have been cited as a major reason for high levels of collusion between criminal organizations and police forces, especially those at the municipal level. Entire municipal police forces have been disarmed on numerous occasions due to suspected or proven links to organized crime. Among the municipalities where that has occurred are Acapulco, Guerrero, and Tlaquepaque, Jalisco.
Cool read.
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Not koo foo
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Sent it to zBB Gmail it's on the website.
DeleteLow wages have been cited as a major reason for collusion? Can't compete with cartel money. Moreover, the greed that mankind has when it pertains to enrichment. Despite the consequences that follows.
ReplyDeleteSuggest reducing the salaries of all those high elite government officials for their incompetence.
Exactly, why is it that in every country that--even the often lowest on the totem pole--politicians always make more money than the police except perhaps at the higher police levels. Same reason I suppose why the elite send the troops to fight the politicians useless wars.
DeleteIncrease the police salary or more will join the cartel.
ReplyDeleteOh alright
DeleteIt's not Rocket science , let the citizens work and make a decent living, not just the cops, there's pretty of money in Mexico.
ReplyDeleteMexico does have very pretty money un huh yes it sure does now shut up or we wont take to chucky cheese to play with all the other retarded children .
DeletePlease read and correct your grammar before_posting
DeleteCost of living wages are a joke in Mexico. Wages should include cost of living paying for middle class home education flor kids and FAFO money. FAFO (fuck around find out) is the most important because your ass is always on the line and the WHAT IF question happens quite a bit. SDSO
ReplyDeleteChapo reportedly paid his sicarios $500 a month, I’d say police is a better job even if you’re a huevon that wants to hold a gun
ReplyDeleteThats koo foo
Delete500 pesos a month.
DeleteIdiots still think Sinaloa is worth it.
Se dice que para pendejo no se estudia. Se nace. Estos gueyes que admiran a Sinaloa y Chapo lo demuestran en voz alta.
When I get stopped I still pay Mordida. U could pay them $26,000 pesos a month. Still would pay the Mordida. It's way of life in Mexico. Any going change, and the new N.G. Amlo's army is really dangerous, don't trust those guys.
ReplyDeleteLo que ocupa Mexico son leyes que se cumplan. Y Para detener alos corruptos necesitan empesar desde Los pinos. Con Los besos y no ballasts. Mira a michoacan arden Las calles y El gobierno Federal bien gracias.
ReplyDeleteThat would be good for cops. Like 13 mil pesos a month it's ok for their familias and risking their lives (the good cops).
ReplyDeleteI spent that or more in one day every time I go to Hongkong in Tijuana no wonder they tax me every time I go down there smfh
ReplyDeleteIt's a good proposal, but the real root of the problem with corruption in Mexico is the corruption at the top.
ReplyDeleteOnly by solving the corruption at the top will Mexico get out of its mess.
No Shit . The basic most common sense idea has taken til now to consider to pay your security forces a living wage with all the politicians that rape and squander millions and millions of dollars year after year and it dawns on them now that maybe 700 bux Usd might begin to start maybe talking about getting serious about the idea of maybe paying the people who put their lives in danger for the rest of the country a few more dollars so that they dont have to get off of work as a cop during the day and have to go kidnap murder or manufacture narcotics to poison neighboring countries with their rudamentary half ass attempts of manufacturing something that barely passes as a drug . That is classic so who knows with all this progression and need for change in Mexico within the next 15 years or so maybe they will think even harder about possibly giving the first responders a few more pesos ? Bravo Mexico Bravo you are on the fast track to being seen as a reasonable respectable place to still not go to . Ha ha . We will begin to think about maybe opening a dialogue to possibly give you a congratulations at some point if there are any leftover and all the politicians have eaten first and can eat no more them maybe just maybe you'll get that ata girl you possibly maybe perhaps deserve .
ReplyDeleteIf mx becomes a no go area for americans, damn it that would be awesome, no more gringos with their i was in the military bullshit talk….i would appreciate that
DeleteWell its the least we can do .For the good people all 4 or 5 em in the entire country and i think two of them are over here now so ...
DeleteThat's all let me moonlight with he Cartels.
ReplyDeleteThere was a time Greedy Obrador, had the balls to tell Vice president Kamala Harris (he called her President Kamala).
ReplyDeleteShe was there for a conference, he stated for USA to stop funding charities, to send it to his cabinet.
We all know it's for thier derp pockets, isn't the daily bribes from Cartels enough.
$680 is barely enough to cover a Friday night out with hookers and cocaine
ReplyDeleteNot in Mexico! That might cover til early in the morning Sunday 😂
DeleteThe problem with Mexico is that it's full of Mexicans, money will make matters worse! You guys will continue to look down on the poor and think your better than the Moreno! Yall need to look in the mirror and then the change will occur.
ReplyDeleteWhat dumbass 😂 comment. "Mexico is full of Mexicans".
DeleteI thought it was full of Japanese.
Lol
DeleteMost cops are allowed to take the marked units home, because of parking issues. They are sitting ducks for the Cartels that want to kill a cop at home.
ReplyDeleteLets not forget that police in many municipalities have to purchase their own bullet proof vests or share 2 vests amongst a group, also purchase their own bullets when training and target practice. Not to mention cops use empty beer cans to practice and well,..sicarios use live targets, with infinite amounts of ammo and tactical gear
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