This contrasts with the goals raised in the session of the National Public Security Council of September 2, 2025, which established clear commitments: strengthening the Municipal Police, expanding video surveillance systems, implementing victims’ care protocols and consolidating inter -institutional coordination. All of them legitimate and urgent goals, but that today run into the harsh reality of a limited budget.
In sum, the Mexican State faces the challenge of maintaining the strategic ambition of security policy in an austerity scenario.
Critical analysis of the identified limitations
– The first limitation is structural: Most of the federal security resources are concentrated in the Armed Forces and the National Guard, which leaves state and municipal police with minimum margins to improve salaries, training or equipment. The result is a growing dependence on military presence, with the risk of relegating the strengthening of civil security, the basis of any democratic system.
– The second limitation is management. At the local level, there are high levels of sub -exercise and low administrative capacity in the municipalities to execute resources, which means that even the funds available do not always translate into real improvements. To this is added the fragmentation of federal and state programs, which generates duplicities or unconnected efforts.
– The third limitation is technological. Investment in intelligence, databases, interoperability of surveillance systems and technologies have been partial and unequal. With restricted budgets, technological innovation is usually the first to sacrifice, when in reality it is the most efficient route to multiply the operational capacity with less resources.
Innovative solution proposals
In this restriction scenario, the key is not to ask for more money – which will hardly come – but to optimize and diversify financing sources, as well as redesign the way in which resources are used.
– Regional security consortiums: municipalities and states can be joined in consortiums to share technological infrastructure (command centers, camera systems, databases). This formula allows you to reduce costs and reduce duplicities, at the same time strengthening regional coordination.
– Public-private alliances for technology: The private sector can contribute in areas such as video surveillance, cybersecurity and data analysis, through coinversion schemes supervised by security authorities. In return, it receives tax benefits or social responsibility certifications.
– Proximity police with community intelligence: Instead of investing in large deployments, the bet must be in municipal police trained in neighborhood intelligence, conflict mediation and use of mobile technology to generate real -time reports. This costs less and offers immediate results in citizen perception.
– Intensive use of low -cost technologies: Mobile denunciation applications, low -range drones for patrol in critical areas, and open source software for data analysis. Not everything requires millionaire investments, but creativity in the integration of technological solutions.
– Recovery of criminal assets: redirect to municipal security funds the resources seized to organized crime. This not only provides liquidity, but sends a symbolic message of redistributive justice.
Strategic recommendations
Given the budget restriction, the strategy must move in three simultaneous addresses:
– Optimization: Prioritize programs with greater proven impact, such as police training and strengthening investigation units. Avoid dispersion in multiple projects with low effectiveness.
– Collaboration: Articulate a common front between municipalities, states and federation, exceeding institutional fragmentation. Security tables must become binding decision bodies and not only dialogue spaces.
– Innovation: Incorporate data -based safety models and predictive intelligence. It is not more patrols, but better information systems that anticipate and neutralize risks.
