MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon said on Friday the country was sick and tired of rampant drug violence after five high-ranking policemen were killed in less than a week.
"We have to come together to confront this evil, we Mexicans have to definitively and categorically say, 'That's enough!'," Calderon said. "We can't accept this situation, we have to take back our streets."
He spoke after attending the funeral of regional commissioner Edgar Millan, one of Mexico's top federal policemen, who was murdered on Thursday by hired killers waiting for him at his home.

Calderon has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers and federal police around the country to bring powerful drug cartels under control, but the army has failed to reduce spiraling violence.

More than 2,500 people were killed in drug related violence in Mexico last year. Another 1,100 people have died so far this year as the drug gangs battle each other and security forces.

The Mexican media said Millan was targeted by professional killers hired by the powerful Sinaloa gang because of his leading role in the arrests of the cartel's gunmen.

"I know that organized criminals are reacting like this because they see that we hurting their operations and breaking down their structures," Calderon said on Friday.

Hours before Millan's funeral, Esteban Robles, a senior detective in Mexico City, was gunned down in front of his apartment, shot seven times in the head, neck and chest.

Two other senior policemen were shot in the capital in recent days and drug hitmen killed Saul Pena, a top police officer in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.

(Reporting by Mica Rosenberg and Miguel Angel Gutierrez; Editing by Kieran Murray)

Source: reuters.com

Mexico City

The Mexican government expressed its condolences for the cowardly murder of a model civil servant, committed to the safety of Mexican families, Edgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, General Coordinator of Regional Safety of the Federal Preventive Police Force.

Federal Government hailed the professional career and the determination with which Coordinator Millán Gómez fought crime and impunity as well as the damage he inflicted on the operating and financial structure of organized crime.

Edgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, a lawyer who trained with the world’s leading security agencies, served as Director General of Regional Police Deployment for the Federal Investigations Agency and Kidnapping Director at the Head Office of Police Investigation.

Millán Gómez was responsible for solving several kidnapping cases, as well as securing the release of Rubén Omar Romano, the then trainer of the Club Deportivo Cruz Azul. Millán Gómez played a strategic role in the Joint Operations undertaken throughout the country.

The Mexican Government will step up its crime fighting. The example set by Coordinator Millán Góme will encourage us to continue fighting against those that jeopardize Mexicans’ health and tranquility.

 

Source: presidencia.gob.mx