"Becoming a police officer is a very hard career to pull through, it's very critized and understood to a minimum; however, the satisfaction that an agent feels when he gets to save a life, or solve a crime, is the best reward they can receive. Ladies and gentlemen, Baja California needs you and it rests on your shoulders to change the image people have of policemen." Those were the words Tijuana's Mayor, Jorge Astiazarán Orcí said during the ceremony of the seventy seven cadets that graduated from the State Public Security Academy (ASPE in Spanish).

The event took place in ASPE' s facilities, and Tijuana's mayor stated that the police corporations that converge on the city shouldn't be judged completely in a negative manner, just because of the presence of bad elements from time to time.

"Now, coordination between federal, state and municipal police officers is up to date, and just because some minor differences are present among agents, that doesn't mean we are going to discourage this great relationship that exists in our official divisions. Citizenship through the State demands results, and with these type of strategies we can achieve that", said Astiazarán Orcí.

On his part, State Governor Francisco Vega de Lamadrid, thanked the families of the graduates, for educating men and women with service values and the conviction of protecting those that surround them, given that now with the professional training that the had received they will be able to be role models for their country, on matters of public safety.

A total of 77 cadets obtained their certificates as police agents, of which, 57 graduated from the XVIII Generation of the Initial Course of State's Ministerial Police Group; while the twenty remaining agents are part of the XXVI Generation of the Municipal Preventive Police Corps.

During the ceremony Commander of the Second Military Area. Gabriel García Rincón; Secretary of Municipal Public Security, Alejandro Lares Valladares; Secretary of the State's Public Security, Daniel de la Rosa Anaya; the State's Attorney General, Perla del Socorro Íbarra Leyva; ASPE's director, Fernando Sánchez González, Deputy President of the State Congress, David Ruvalcaba Flores; Tecate's Mayor, César Moreno González de Castilla, among other personalities attended.

*Newsletter of Tijuana's City Hall

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