page_title: Federal Police (Mexico)
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: Federal Police (Mexico) / Organization
caption_attribution_description: Español: Celebración del Día del Policía Federal. English: Federal Police Day celebration.
context_page_description: The Federal Police, formerly known as the Policía Federal Preventiva, was a Mexican national police force. It was under the authority of the Department of Security and Civil Protection. They were sometimes referred to by the slang term "Federales" or "Mexican feds" by some U.S. agents and media. Typically, agents of the Federal Police are heavily armed and wear dark blue, black, or gray combat fatigues. The Federal Police was officially dissolved and absorbed to the National Guard, a new national police institution created by president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, on 1 October 2019.
  The Federal Preventive Police was created by the merger of four other federal organizations in 1998 and 1999 in order to better co-ordinate the fight against the growing threat of drug cartels. The agency merged the Federal Highway Police, the Fiscal Police, an Interior Ministry intelligence unit called the Investigation and National Security Center, and military personnel transferred en masse from the Mexican Army's 3rd Military Police Brigade.
  On account of its heavily armed agents, its culture, and its origins, the Federal Police as a whole may be considered a gendarmerie.
context_section_description: Regulation of the Law of the Federal Police in the Official Gazette of May 17, 2010, to establish the basic organizational structure of this Decentralized Administrative Body, Article 5 of that system, comprising a total of 136 seats of middle and senior management, broken 130 seats structure, as shown below:
  1 General Commissioner;
  7 Divisions: Intelligence Research, Regional Security; Scientific, Drug, Federal and Gendarmerie Forces;
  1 General Secretariat;
  1 Internal Affairs;
  20 Coordination;
  66 DGs;
  6 DGs in aid to the Chief of the Division of Regional Security;
  32 State Coordination at the regional level; and
  1 Head of Internal Affairs.
caption: Federal Police Day celebration.
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