Policing Strategies: Comparative Analysis of Mexico and Australia

This assignment examines policing strategies, focusing on the approaches of Mexico and Australia. It begins by discussing the creation of Mexico's National Gendarmerie as a response to violence from drug cartels, highlighting the shift in focus from arresting drug lords to reducing violence rates. The assignment then compares this strategy with the Australian Federal Police's direct approach to combating drug-related crime. It explores how the Mexican strategy could be implemented in Australia to reduce both crime and drug rates. Furthermore, the document considers the impact of cultural and social issues, such as population growth and migration, on crime rates within different jurisdictions. The conclusion emphasizes the similarities in policing strategies across jurisdictions while underscoring the significant influence of social and cultural factors on police departments and crime rates, suggesting these issues need to be addressed to decrease societal crime.

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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

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well as drug rates. Australia also provides offshore help to other countries for fighting drug
hence the country can use these strategies in offshore jurisdiction.
Impact of cultural or social issues on the police forces of different jurisdictions.
Most of the major crimes are done by men below twenty-five years of age. This is the
result of population growth and change in the age composition of the population. Another
impact is the migration of rural people into the cities.
Conclusion
Hence, it can be concluded that the strategies of police forces of different jurisdiction
is more or less the same. However, the social and cultural issues have major impact on the
police departments as the crime rates are increasing due to the above mentioned issues. The
police has yet to control these issues to decrease the crime rates in the society.

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Reference
Beittel, J.S., 2015. Mexico: Organized crime and drug trafficking organizations. Washington:
Congressional Research Service, 3.
Dell, M. (2015). Trafficking networks and the Mexican drug war. American Economic
Review, 105(6), 1738-79.
Hughes, C.E., Moxham-Hall, V., Ritter, A., Weatherburn, D. and MacCoun, R., 2017. The
deterrent effects of Australian street-level drug law enforcement on illicit drug offending at
outdoor music festivals. International Journal of Drug Policy, 41, pp.91-100.