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[HK70]

Check out the video attached to this article.

http://www.el-mexica...able-dance.aspx

[HK70]

Here is another one from a few years ago making sure everything is safe and secure in Hong Kong bar in zona norte. Pay special attention to the 5 to 6 minute time frame.

http://www.el-mexica...zona-norte.aspx

[Keyno]

Dang, out of control!.....

So what were they there for anyway?

[Cyanide41]

I saw that they suspended 15 cops for this incident. I am guessing they will all be fired because there is way too much publicity surrounding it.

http://www.sandiego6...l...&navCatId=5

[mrsports]

I saw that they suspended 15 cops for this incident. I am guessing they will all be fired because there is way too much publicity surrounding it.

http://www.sandiego6...l...&navCatId=5

I don't know about fired, but I did hear they are getting applications in at a record pace.

[George Costanza]

I don't know about fired, but I did hear they are getting applications in at a record pace.

LOLOLOL I applied as well

[Tony Nor Cal]

LOLOLOL I applied as well

Are you nuts

[HK70]

New scandal hits Tijuana police department
Judge, jail guard and one officer suspended

Por: Omar Millán 9 Diciembre 2011 @ 8:36 am

TIJUANA – A new scandal is rocking the city’s police department even as the legal case continues against 15 officers involved in the incident captured on video of a female suspect forced to strip for them at a substation.

The new case involves a woman who filed a complaint that she was humiliated by municipal police officers for ten hours and obligated to strip by a female jail guard while was under arrest.

The City Attorney’s Office announced Thursday afternoon that it had indefinitely suspended three public servants in two cases – a judge, a female jail guard and a police officer -- for failing to do their duty and respect the law “since it was proven that they participated in acts contrary to their obligations.”

The director of the Responsibilities unit in the City Attorney’s Office, Jesús Antonio Chávez, said a complaint had been filed against the judge, the jail guard, and six municipal police officers.

“The victim explained that she was detained for a participating in a street fight and transported to the substation in the Zona Norte, where she was presented before Judge Marco Antonio Quihuis Campillo. He did not allow her to give her account of what had happened but imposed ten hours of detention at the (municipal jail) without the possibility of substituting the sentence with a fine,” Chávez said.

Once at the jail, Chávez continued, municipal officers humiliated her when she requested an opportunity to phone a family member. Afterward, the jail guard Sandra Sánchez Miramontes threatened her if she did not take off her clothes in one of the cells, which she did.

In a separate case, police officer David Alejandro Sarmiento Ávila was suspended for allegedly being involved in an accident in which a seven-year-old girl and her father, 37, were injured.

He said the officer was detained and taken to an investigative office called the Ministerio Público. There, he tested positive for amphetamines and methamphetamines, “which is considered a cause (for the accident) and which obligates us to begin legal proceedings against him,” Chávez said.

Nearly 200 police officers have been removed from their posts for a variety of reasons since the start of Mayor Carlos Bustamante’s administration in November of 2010. One case stands out, however.

In April, police officers forced a young woman who had been detained to strip to music in the substation of La Presa Rural as they cheered her on, an incident caught on a cellphone video camera. A total of 15 officers, including a commander, were suspended and the case continues under investigation.

The case, which came to be called “Presagate,” reached the state’s Legislature, where lawmakers tried to prosecute the city’s attorney, Yolanda Enríquez, for allegedly covering up the incident, which was revealed by a newspaper a month after it had happened.

Since the Bustamante’s administration began, a total of 195police municipal police officers were suspended from their job while they were under investigation for a variety of offenses, 18 suspected of being involved in organized crime. Of those, 37 have been fired so far.

The officers were suspended during the ongoing systematic program to weed out corruption from the Municipal Public Safety Department, said spokesman Julián Domínguez.

He said 38 officers were suspended for abuse of authority, 11 for extortion, 18 for participating in organized crime, two or sexual abuse, 11 for testing positive for drugs and the rest for assuming duties they were not entitled to have.

In the previous administration of Mayor Jorge Ramos (2007 to 2010), nearly 600 officers were removed from their jobs when the local government began the unprecedented program to “clean up” the department through a variety of tests.

Omar.millan@sandieogred.com

http://www.sandiegor...ice-department/

[HK70]

Video shows police officer beating suspect in Tijuana
City Attorney begins investigation of four officers

Por: Omar Millán 25 Enero 2012 @ 6:05 am

TIJUANA – A video has surfaced apparently showing a municipal police officer beating a suspect handcuffed in the back of patrol pickup as three others watch.

City Attorney Yolanda Enríquez announced Tuesday that the four officers were being investigated for apparent use of excessive force against a detainee.

This is the third investigation of abuse in 12 months in a department that is supposed to have been nearly 80 per cent cleared of corruption.

In the new case, a video shows an officer repeatedly hitting a detained man who was handcuffed in the bed of a patrol pickup as two officers stand next to him. The video captured the sound the agent made as he delivered the blows. Toward the end of the video a fourth agent approaches the patrol vehicle.

The faces of the four agents can’t be seen clearly because the video was taken from so far away, apparently by a cell phone camera, but the patrol car’s number, P-4972, is visible.

The incident occurred on Jan. 16 of 2011, though it is not clear why it is now coming to light. The video was turned over to the police department anonymously.

Enríquez said her office has already requested information from the department’s internal affairs unit about the agents involved.

This is the third case high-profile case of police abuse being investigated during the current administration of Mayor Carlos Bustamante.

The so-called “Presagate” incident came to light after a video surfaced that shows a detained woman being pressured to strip to music to gain her freedom by officers at the Presa Rural substation. Fifteen officers, including a deputy commander, were suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.

And in December, a woman filed a complaint alleging that she had been humiliated by two municipal police agents and forced to strip by a female guard while serving a 10-hour sentence for a minor infraction.

The city attorney announced that the three public servants had been suspended indefinitely in the case because “it had been proven that they participated in actions contrary to their duties.”

Since the Bustamante administration begin on Nov. 30, 2010, some 195 municipal police officers have been suspended while under investigation, 18 of them accused of participating in organized crime. A total of 37 of those have been subsequently fired.

The suspensions came during the program the police department is carrying out to weed out corruption, according to spokesman Julián Domínguez.

He said of those suspended, 106 for a variety of offenses, 38 for abuse of authority, 11 for extortion, 18 for participating in organized crime, two for sexual abuse, 11 testing positive in drug tests and the rest for improper duties.

In the previous administration of Mayor Jorge Ramos (2007-2010), nearly 600 municipal police officers were fired as part of the unprecedented progam to “cleanse” the department of corruption using a variety of tests and evaluations.

omar.millan@sandiegored.com

http://www.sandiegor...ect-in-Tijuana/

[bajashrink]

One of the cops was identified and resigned today. The link includes the video:

http://www.tijuanaho...ipal-golpeador/

[Cyanide41]

lol..... only a year later. I am not surprised, it's not like swift justice applies in Mexico.