2019

Durham, Mecklenburg, and Orange officers participated in the 2019 program in which the delegation was briefed at the Ministry of Foreign Relations on the subject of Public Safety. The Ministry shared one of the outskirts of Mexico City’s most dangerous neighborhood successful crime reduction model that involved a mix of community and police engagement tactics. The delegation also learned a successful model of re-entry into the workforce for Mexicans deported from the United States that had returned to Mexico.  Mexican wrestling match was added to the agenda for enhanced cultural context. As in previous years, the group traveled to the state of Guanajuato visiting the state’s coordination, command, control, communications, technology, and intelligence (C5i), the rural community La Escobilla in which at least 70% of the families have a family member who has migrated to the United States. The delegation toured a medium level prison (Cereso 1000), and a juvenile detention in which the recidivism is nonexistent. The delegation spent a day in the State Police (FSPE) headquarters exchanging information, procedures, and tactics. This was possible due to established relationship with the previous visiting FSPE delegation to Charlotte. Participants returned to the United States ready to continue strengthen the established relationship with FSPE and ready to change outdated ways of engaging with the Latino community in North Carolina.