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Cuernavaca Mayor Announces Police and Governance Reform

Cuernavaca Mayor Paula Trade presented a new strategy focused on professionalizing the police, regulating street vending, and improving municipal services. The main goal is to strengthen public trust and return the city to its 'garden city' status.


Cuernavaca Mayor Announces Police and Governance Reform

As the municipal mayor of Cuernavaca, I am working to ensure that our police are trained, that the attention and service are immediate, more sensitive, and with training in human rights; that is where we want to make a difference,” she said. The mayor stated that the administration is betting on a governance model in which legality is the engine to raise the quality of life for the families of Cuernavaca. This strategy seeks that each police intervention is a factor of trust for the citizenship, reducing response times and prioritizing prevention in the neighborhoods with the most social and commercial activity. In urban development, Trade commented that a commercial ordering policy has been promoted that seeks to balance economic activity with the right to free transit. The objective is to regulate street vending in the city's nerve centers, returning Cuernavaca its vocation as a garden city and an excellent tourist destination. Likewise, she recalled that the key to a functional city is the firm application of current regulations, which promotes a culture of legality in all sectors. “It is a strategy that requires order and good compliance with legality. Although the UN's international standard suggests a floor of 2.8 police per thousand inhabitants for optimal coverage, the mayor assured that they have focused on maximizing the potential of the current force through unprecedented technical and human training. “The truth is that we have few public security elements in the city. We need to regulate street vending with discipline and compliance with the law, and that is where we, as the city council, are aiming,” said Paula Trade. Also, the mayor said there is a close watch on public finances to ensure that resources translate into tangible benefits. Cuernavaca must focus its efforts on the professionalization of security, the reordering of commerce, and the improvement of the efficiency of municipal services, said the mayor Paula Trade. Trade Hidalgo reiterated that one of the priority axes is the strengthening of preventive security. From the lighting of avenues to the maintenance of green areas, the Mayor's Office supervises that every peso of the municipal budget has a direct impact on collective well-being. “We don't need to invent something different; we need to put order in place to have a clean city that functions better.”

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