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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Mexico: Juarez Cranks Up Private Security

     Oscar Macías, the Juárez-based regional director of Securitas, said that while the company’s finances have been positive overall, they have not been as high as he’d like.

     For one, he said, the company’s earnings have been eaten up by investments in equipment and salary increases.

Since 2008, Macías said, Securitas has toughened up its training and recruiting processes and upgraded technology to meet the growing expectations of an increasingly demanding clientele. 

     “We have to invest in quality to make sure the client is satisfied,” he said.

      Having to ‘invest in quality to make sure the client is satisfied’?  Now that is music to my ears. lol  Not to mention salary increases and investments in equipment sounds great too.  You have to take care of your people if you want good customer service and satisfaction.

       But most importantly, these companies have to invest in good quality management to ensure that everything operates the way it is supposed to. From the shift leader all the way up to the project manager, a company must focus on quality management. You can have high salaries for employees and the best equipment ever, but unless your guard force is well organized, trained and managed, then all of that is for not. It is that management that will ensure good customer service and satisfaction, and continuous improvement (Kaizen).

     You know what would be an interesting study is to actually do a customer and employee/contractor survey to see exactly what the companies are doing right and what they are doing wrong in Mexico. With Juarez being the most dangerous city out there, perhaps in the world, this kind of study might be pretty influential in the realm of private security research and industry best practices. –Matt

Juárez cranks up private security

Businesses spent 45 percent more than in 2009

January 2011

By Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera

JUáREZ – Confronted with the city’s bloodiest year to date, businesses in Ciudad Juárez spent 45 percent more for private security in 2010 than the year before, according to figures reported by private security companies.

Juárez “is the city with the largest increase in security investments,” said Ivette Estrada, spokeswoman for the Private Security National Council, or CNSP, an association of security firms in Mexico. It calculated the increase using data provided by its 298 members.

The average increase in private security expenditures for Mexican border cities was 33 percent, Estrada said.

At the national level, the council estimated that companies in Mexico spent an average 11.3 percent of their production costs for insurance and security services in 2010, compared to 7 percent the year before and between 3 and 5 percent in 2008.

Last year was the most violent in Ciudad Juárez so far, with a record 3,111 drug-related killings, bringing the total number of violent deaths in the city since 2008 to at least 7,488.

Faced with the inability of Mexican authorities to stem the wave of crime and brutality pummeling the city, Juarenses have invested heavily in alarm systems, closing off streets with gates and hiring private security to guard neighborhood entrances.

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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Bounties: Mexican Cartel Issues Million Dollar Bounty On Sheriff Joe Arpaio Via Text Messaging

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Quotes: ‘We Still Have Car Bombs (expletive) ha ha’, Juarez Cartel

     Could this signal the next phase of the drug war down south?  Because once these guys get into competition with each other over whose car bomb is bigger, more deadly, and used to greater effect than the other guy, I think we will see a level of violence that will equal Iraq or Afghanistan.

     Remember, these cartels are watching and learning what combatants are doing in other parts of the world. The various uses of the IED has become an art form with many of these folks, and I have no doubt that the cartels will make their own little masterpieces of death and destruction. –Matt

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We Still Have Car Bombs

A wall at a shopping center is covered by graffiti that reads in Spanish “What happened on the 16 (street) is going to keep happening to all the authoritiesthat continue to support the Chapo (Guzman), sincerely, the Juarez Cartel. We still have car bombs (expletive) ha ha.” Cartel assailants laid a trap for federal police and attacked them with a car bomb on Thursday the first time a drug cartel have used explosives to attack Mexican security forces, marking an escalation in the country’s drug war. – From Borderland Beat

Friday, June 4, 2010

Mexico: Agents Feared Mexican Drug Cartel Attack On Border Dam

Filed under: Maritime Security,Mexico — Tags: , , , , , — Matt @ 11:30 AM

     First piracy, and now cartels are threatening to blow up dams?  This Falcon Lake sounds like quite the party zone. lol –Matt

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This 2001 photo shows Falcon Dam, a reservoir on the lower Rio Grande, that reportedly was threatened.

Agents feared Mexican drug cartel attack on border dam

By DANE SCHILLER and JAMES PINKERTON

June 2, 2010

An alleged plot by a Mexican drug cartel to blow up a dam along the Texas border — and unleash billions of gallons of water into a region with millions of civilians — sent American police, federal agents and disaster officials secretly scrambling last month to thwart such an attack, authorities confirmed Wednesday.

Whether or not the cartel, which is known to have stolen bulk quantities of gunpowder and dynamite, could have taken down the 5-mile-long Falcon Dam may never be known since the attack never came to pass.

It may have been derailed by a stepped-up presence by the Mexican military, which was acting in part on intelligence from the U.S. government, sources said.

The warning, which swung officials into action, was based on what the federal government contends were “serious and reliable sources” and prompted the Department of Homeland Security to sound the alarm to first responders along the South Texas-Mexico border.

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Mexico: Police Forces Are Resigning In Small Towns Due To Cartel Violence And Threats

   Boy, the war on Mexico’s authorities is only getting worse.  I expect that as more police forces resign, you will see more private security increase.  Worse yet, you will see more businesses being forced to kiss the ring of the cartels, because there is no one to protect them.

   Another idea is that Mexico is not a signatory of the Declaration of Paris.  Although they did remove the Amendment in their constitution that allowed their congress to issue Letters of Marque and Reprisal(I think in the 1960’s).  Regardless, a sovereign nation should be able to do anything they can to defend themselves against all threats, both foreign and domestic.  Mexico could use the LoM to enlist the help of private industry in their war.  The cartels are pretty rich, and they are the kind of big fish that could make the business of killing or capturing these thugs pretty profitable for a privateering company.  Mexico would also have to attach a bounty to those they would want killed or captured.

   Personally, I think there should be more value to a living cartel member, as opposed to a dead one.  The reason for that is then Mexico could identify more cartel members that are threats, and thus increase the bounty roster. They can also get more money out of a living guy, because you can get more information out of them(secret bank accounts, hidden cash, etc.).

   Also, with this kind of industry, companies would want to interrogate their captures so they can build their own files.  That information is gold to a company that is in the business of ‘finding’ people and things, and that intel should be part of the prize when going after these thugs. –Matt

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Mexican Town’s Police Force Quits After Ambush

May 18, 2010

Most of a small Mexican town’s police force has quit after armed men ambushed and wounded two of their officers.

The resignation of six of the 11 municipal officers in La Union Monday evening comes after several other Mexican towns have seen mass police resignations because of cartel violence or threats.

State police in Guerrero, which La Union is located, said Tuesday that it has deployed 20 of its officers to patrol La Union until further notice.

The resignations came two days after their colleagues were ambushed and left La Union’s police force with five members: the chief, the deputy chief, an officer in charge of weapons logistics and the two wounded officers who are hospitalized.

Meanwhile, people in some Mexican towns have begun taking the law into their own hands.

In Mexico State, on the outskirts of Mexico City, authorities said Tuesday that residents of a town beat a man death on suspicion of robbing a young couple of 200 pesos (about $16) and a cell phone Monday.

The suspect and an accomplice allegedly held up the couple with a knife and what later was found to be a toy gun.

About 300 people pursued the two men, caught one and beat him so badly with sticks and fists that he died in an ambulance, officials said.

Also Tuesday, the federal police announced the capture of an alleged member of the La Linea gang in the border city of Ciudad Juarez who allegedly participated in the killing of 10 people.

Juan Padilla Juarez, 28, allegedly targeted rivals of the La Linea gang, which is allied with the Juarez drug cartel. He was captured Monday in Ciudad Juarez.

The Attorney General’s Office announced that a judge handed down a prison sentence of almost 22 years against Jaime Gonzalez Duran, also known as ”The Hummer,” for money laundering and weapons possession. He had previously been sentenced to 16 1/2 years on similar charges by another court. The sentences will not be served concurrently.

Gonzalez Duran is an army deserter who was arrested in the northern border city of Reynosa. He is allegedly one of the founding members of the Zetas, a band of cartel hit men believed responsible for massacres and beheadings.

Story here.

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