However, the budget for the Person Search Commission – responsible for developing and executing Mexico City’s person search program – had an increase in its budget of only 3.9%. This does not consider that in 2024 inflation closed at 4.21%.
By 2025, the Commission will receive an increase of 900,000 pesos compared to the resources assigned to it the previous year, to reach 23.7 million pesos.
The disappearance of people has been a security and human rights problem that has persisted in the last six years: although a decrease was recorded in 2020 and 2021, it rebounded from 2022 and reached a record number in 2024.
The capital was ranked as the second entity in Mexico with the highest number of missing and unlocated people in 2024, surpassed only by the State of Mexico, which registered 2,251 missing or unlocated people.
The Iztapalapa, Gustavo A. Madero and Cuauhtémoc mayoralties are the districts that concentrated the highest number of missing people in 2024.
Relatives of missing people from the Hasta Buscales CDMX collective demonstrated in October 2024, about a month after the inauguration of Clara Brugada as head of Government, to ask to expedite the application of the search protocols as well as the dismissal of the head of the Commission, Enrique Camargo, due to the lack of results, however until now the official remains in office.
