Overview
- Serafín Tadeo Lazcano has resigned as Tabasco’s secretary of Security and Protection, and the governor thanked him as he moves to a federal role.
- Governor Javier May Rodríguez named Alejandro Leal López, a career officer from the federal Servicio de Protección Federal, as the new state security secretary.
- Omar Castañeda Ríos was appointed commissioner of the State Police as part of the same leadership shuffle in the security apparatus.
- Tadeo Lazcano led the SSPC for about 15 months and during his term the state created the tactical FIRT Olmeca unit, stepped up anti-narcomenudeo operations, and worked closely with federal forces but violence tied to La Barredora’s fragmentation continued.
- The governor said this will not be the only personnel change and that adjustments in three other state secretariats are expected by the end of the month, a move tied to officials’ electoral ambitions and likely to reshape public security strategy.