Law enforcement strategies to reduce violence

Running head: POLICING STRATEGIES
POLICING STRATEGIES
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POLICING STRATEGIES1
Introduction
The new president of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, developed the National
Gendarmerie, a national police force. The gendarmerie was developed to address the various
violence prevalence in the country. In this essay, the strategies used by National Gendarmerie
for fighting with the drug cartel are illustrated.
Discussion
Strategy used by Mexico’s police force
Creating the National Gendarmerie was the first step to fight against the violence of
the drug cartels prevailing in the country, which has taken thousands of life over the last few
years (Dell 2015). When the gang realizes that there is a special force targeted for them, it
can reduce the violence to an effective rate. The president has made several organizational
and conceptual changes over the past policy. The main strategy of Nieto was to focus on
reducing the rates of violence related to kidnappings, rapes, extortions and murders in the
country rather than focusing on arresting the drug lords and confiscating their shipments.
Nieto later stated that the violence rates in the country influence the drug war therefore
weakening these criminals would weaken the drug peddlers also. The presidents did not favor
the US army in Mexico however, he used their skills for training the gendarmerie in
counterinsurgency tactics (Beittel 2015).
Implementation of the strategy in Australia’s context
Australian federal police fights directly with drug problem unlike Mexico (Hughes, et
al. 2017). Drug and criminal go hand in hand as most of the arrested criminals have
committed crimes under the influence of drugs. Hence, if the strategies of Mexico’s police
force is implemented in the Australian federal police it will help in reducing both the crime as