Procuraduría General de la República
The Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) is the attorney general in Mexico and a political body. It is led by the Procurador General de la República (de México) , comparable to an Attorney General .
The area of responsibility is the further development and monitoring of the state constitution and the administration of justice. The area of responsibility also includes crime prevention in terms of internal security .
Originally the national Federal Criminal Police ( Policía Judicial Federal ) was subordinate to the PGR. Because of the many stories of corruption and abuse, the Vicente Fox government founded the Agencia Federal de Investigación in 2001 , an institution comparable to the FBI . This went into 2009 in the Policía Federal . Arely Gómez González has been the PGR's new attorney general since March 2015 .
Former Procuradores Generales de la República
Web links
- Official website (span.)
Coordinates: 19 ° 25 ′ 49 ″ N , 99 ° 9 ′ 44.3 ″ W.