Since the year 2018, when AMLO took office, more deaths were recorded with a total of 30 police officers killed in the performance of their duties.
(PUEBLA – COMMON-CAUSE ORG), January 20, 2022.- In Puebla from 2018 to 2021, 81 police officers have been murdered in the exercise of their duty, according to the Murdered Police report , from the Common-Cause organization.
In 2018, Puebla registered 30 police officers killed in the performance of their duties, but the figure was reduced in 2019, when 22 elements perished. By 2020 the figure reached 15 murders, while so far in 2022 Puebla has not reported any murders against its police officers.
It is worth mentioning that the state of Puebla closed 2021 with 14 police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty.
The most recent events occurred on the night of November 19, when elements of the Municipal Public Security Secretariat of Tecamachalco murdered three agents of the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) .
The first murder against a Municipal Public Security element was perpetrated on January 16, 2021 against Ceferino Márquez Hernández, who belonged to the Xicotepec corporation ; He had eight years of service.
The second death was recorded in the early hours of February 7 in the Tercer Barrio area of the Huejotzingo municipality , where municipal police officer Saturnino Ramos was beaten and shot by a group of people who were participating in a fight.
On March 10, 2021, state police officers Pedro Sánchez Lima and Óscar Noberto Ríos were ambushed by an armed group that was between the limits of Jolalpan-Tlaucingo.
One more incident occurred on March 20, when municipal police officer Víctor Adrián Torres, 20, along with his partner, were traveling on Kawasaki 069 and 047 motorcycles, they were run over by the driver of a Volkswagen Jetta, who was allegedly intoxicated.
According to Common Cause, in 2020 the number of police officers killed in the line of duty was 524, an average of 1.42 per day. The states with the most deaths were Guanajuato with 84, the State of Mexico with 39, Veracruz with 39, Guerrero with 37 and Chihuahua with 35.
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