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Mexican Cities Roll Out Holiday Security Operations for Halloween and Día de Muertos

Layered policing using inspections with C5 monitoring seeks to manage large crowds.

Overview

  • Guadalajara launched an integral plan for its five cemeteries with about 700 operatives and more than 100 vehicles, expects roughly 270,000 visitors, and invested 5 million pesos to repair damaged tomb covers.
  • Tijuana anticipates 25,000–30,000 people on Avenida Revolución with 217 officers, 50 patrols, 27 traffic motorcycles and nine control points, plus discretionary costume checks and alcohol testing.
  • Municipal inspectors in Tijuana will target unpermitted events citywide with 30 inspectors assigned across zones and 10 focused on clandestine parties, six of which have already been detected.
  • In the Guadalajara metro area, authorities say the ‘Rodada del Terror’ has identified meeting times and locations and will be policed through C5 video surveillance and patrols at about 10 strategic points including Estadio Akron and Puente Matute Remus.
  • Hermosillo will secure 10 cemeteries with about 200 police, 80 vehicles and a 25-unit motor group while banning alcohol and musical groups inside, as Mexicali assigns 150 officers to panteón patrols and 200 for Halloween with alcohol permitted in cemeteries under supervision.