Student, 20, Is New Police Chief in Mexico Drug Corridor

[Jazzy]

PRAXEDIS G. GUERRERO, Mexico (Oct. 20) -- There's a new police chief in this violent borderland where drug gangs have killed public officials and terrified many citizens into fleeing: a 20-year-old woman who hasn't yet finished her criminology degree.



Marisol Valles Garcia was sworn in Wednesday to bring law and order to a township of about 8,500 that has been transformed from a string of quiet farming communities into a lawless no man's land. Two rival gangs - the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels - have been battling for control of its single highway, a lucrative drug trafficking route along the Texas border.



The tiny but energetic Valles Garcia, whose only police experience was a stint as a department secretary, says she wants her 13 officers to practice a special brand of community policing. She plans to hire more women - she currently has three - and assign each to a neighborhood to talk with families, promote civic values and detect potential crimes before they happen.



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[Evil Eye]

Good luck to her...

 

[The Dragon Master]

It's great that a woman's been sworn in, but she is a bit to young with not much experience.

 

[Bluezone777]

It's not surprising they picked someone so inexperienced because no one wants to be the police chief in an area where most every police officer either winds up dead or on the payroll of the drug cartels if they treasure their life over their morals. I can't really blame anyone when it's so bad as it is over there.

 

[Jazzy]

She's young, has no experience and I just pray she lives to celebrate her 21st birthday.