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Baja California: Local Police Abuse Undercover Federal Agents
BabelfishMexican Federal agents of the Policía Federal Preventiva (PFP) were arrested, interrogated, beaten and eventually released by Tijuana, Baja California municipal police in a situation which nearly led to an armed confrontation between the police, say Mexican new reports. According to the translation, Tijuana municipal police arrested a group of four Mexican Federal agents who were operating undercover dressed in street clothes near calle Tercera, between calles Mutualismo and Miguel Hidalgo in the central district of Tijuana at about 1200 hrs Sunday. The municipal police agents spent many hours humiliating and abusing their prisoners with the Federal agents who kept protesting their true identity. Another version of this part of the story was the PFP agents were drunk during this time and were then taken to the hotel where the Federal agents were quartered. The PFP agents were transferred to a nearby military facility where they were beaten as a lesson and then released to their quarters at the hotel. When the agents' commander saw the condition of his agents, he immediately called out 20 uniformed Mexican Federal patrols to search for the police who detained and beat the agents. When a patrol found the municipal police vehicle used to transport the agents, the rest of the federal patrols converged on the scene. Apparently, the Federal agents shouted abusively at the Tijuana police, which prompted the municipal police to request assistance. Soon between 40 and 50 municipal police patrols converged to the area, essentially surrounding the Federal agents. At this point, apparently both sides were preparing to fire upon each other when commanders of both sides ordered both sides to stand down. According to the translation, this is not the first such incident between police units in Tijuana. Posted by: badanov 2010-06-22 |
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