DECONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED V0 SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED RELEASED IN FULL The Deputy Secretary's Meeting with Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna at AFI Headquarters La Moneda CONTEXT Garcia Luna heads the Public Security Secretariat SSP and is responsible for the complete restructuring of all federal police entities into a single professional force as well as for the on-going pursuit of the cartels in liaison with USG law enforcement agencies The proposed USG support package will help accomplish both these objectives Garcia Luna's role in the national security context is perhaps the most complex given the extensive corruption that permeated the previous Federal Preventive Police force and the extraordinary technological projects he has initiated including the Plataforma Mexico a communications system that will provide inter-connectivity throughout the country potentially linking police and prosecutors at all levels of government across Mexico The tasks he has assumed are Herculean Our goal is to support Calderon's efforts to consolidate and clean up federal police forces and identify those areas where we can best add value to achieving a modern effective police force KEY OBJECTIVES o Corruption Seek how the USG can best complement Garcia Luna's efforts to professionalize Mexico's federal police How is GOM increasing anti-corruption efforts as it recruits and trains new police The U S Congress will ask how any support package addresses the acknowledged corruption that has permeated Mexican federal police in the past The Mexican proposal itself asked for nothing along those lines but U S counterproposals have been incorporated in the current package USG assistance outside that package is already helping e g supporting FBI-directed training for SSP polygraphers in Texas state police academy o Developing New Tools to Attack Drug Trafficking Organizations Discuss how the USG can best complement Garcia Luna's efforts to maintain pressure on the narcotics trafficking groups The necessary systemic restructuring of the federal police complicates the day-to-day effort to disrupt the cartels Plus the SSP has fallen far short of its recruitment goals and SSP middle management is also resisting change UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE REVIEW AUTHORITY ADOLPH H EISNER DATE CASE ID 31 MAR-2011 200804526 SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED DECONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED DEC ON 1TROLLED U N CILAS SHED SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -2IF TIME PERMITS 1 Regional Cooperation Discuss how the GOM has approached governments of Central America Colombia to coordinate the attack on the drug trafficking groups The Calderon Administration seeks a leadership role in coordinating regionally on such shared security concerns as narco-trafficking groups and criminal gangs It believes it can be a more effective leader in such ventures than the USG Coordination covers many areas but several fall within Garcia Luna's areas of responsibility intelligence investigation and interdiction He has traveled widely to consult counterparts in the region 2 Privacy in Mexican Context Query how Mexican jurisprudence treats privacy issues in context of criminal databases Garcia Luna is creating a massive system of interconnectivity between all levels of law enforcement Plataforma Mexico a billion dollar project This project will include a Unique National Crime Reporting System where none exists today and will link police to numerous GOM databases i i I SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED DECONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED i DECONTROLLED UNCLAS SIFIED SEARAMEX D Trip Oct 2007BCLsBCL 23 Garcia Luna WHA MEX Ian Brownlee 78113 Drafted Embassy Mexico NAS SDanaher Approved WHA Thomas A Shannon Cleared WHA RJacobson ok WHAIMEX JDickson ok WHA AND AChacon ok D MSConaway ok P AMeltzer ok S P WMcIhenny ok INL DHinckley ok F MTolliver info AID SHendrix ok Embassy Mexico LBassett ok DECONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu