Law enforcement in Mexico City
Law enforcement in Mexico City is provided by two primary agencies; the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City (Secretaría de Seguridad ciudadana de la ciudad de México), who provides uniformed or preventative police, and the Office of the Attorney General of Mexico City (Fiscalía General de Justicia de la Ciudad de México) who provides plainclothes detectives and crime lab services. Secretariat of Citizen Security The Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City (; SSC) is the uniformed law enforcement agency of Mexico City, headquartered in Venustiano Carranza. It manages a combined force of over 100,000 officers in Mexico City. The Mexico City Police (Policía Ciudad de México) is the police department of Mexico City. Mexico City contains the seat of the federal Mexican government. There are 8.84 million residents of the city, according to 2009 estimates, and another 21.1 million people in the metropolitan region. The SSC is charged with maintaining public order and safety in the center of Mexico City where public insecurity and crime rates are the highest in the nation. As a result, there have been concurrent efforts to increase accountability and improve police effectiveness. Beginning in 1996, authorities began a dramatic restructuring of the SSC,