Clara Brugada’s Security Strategy for Mexico City: Visión 360

Clara Brugada Molina, gubernatorial candidate for the "Let's Keep Making History" coalition, has announced her strategy to address security challenges in Mexico City. Her plan, "Strategy for Security and Peace Building Vision 360," emphasizes the use of new technologies to guarantee citizen security.

This strategy begins with the implementation of a new technological tool called "Visión 360", a platform designed to collect and analyze data from all institutions involved with the Security Cabinet including, the Secretariat of Citizen Security, the Attorney General's Office, and the armed forces, among others. "By coordinating and integrating information within this tool, we will be able to identify and mitigate threats much more quickly and effectively, thus guaranteeing the security of all citizens," assured Brugada.

Each morning, the platform will be updated with data on arrests, incidents, and investigation files opened and closed the previous day. This information will help assess the impact of crimes in the short term, allowing for the identification of trends such as which crimes are above or below their daily or monthly average, and to provide insights into the evolution of crimes by neighborhood. Finally, the platform will include data from the penitentiary system, making this information publicly available.

In addition, Brugada affirmed that she would proceed with the installation of new cabinets focused on public safety in coordination with different levels of government, authorities, and independent bodies. The purpose of this initiative is to ensure the effective implementation of this initiative across all 16 municipalities of Mexico City.

To enhance city security, Brugada proposed a series of complementary initiatives. These include the construction of a hospital dedicated to police personnel, the installation of 150,000 additional surveillance cameras throughout the city (63,000 currently), all of which will be directly connected to the Control, Command, Computing, Communications, and Citizen Contact Center (C5). She also advocated for the formation of a metropolitan coordination cabinet to address theft in public transportation, responding to recent requests from the Mexican Alliance of Transportation Organizations (AMOTAC).

Another key aspect of Brugada Molina's strategy is enhancing the city’s police proximity model by quadrants and the reactivation of police modules throughout the city to cover all neighborhoods, towns, and housing units in the city. This approach will be complemented by a monthly citizen evaluation program to assess the security conditions of each neighborhood. Further initiatives include enhanced training, equipment upgrades, and salary increases for the Mexico City Police.

Additionally, it was assured that the police will be provided with smartphones with geolocation, remotely activated cameras, and pre-loaded documents, such as the standardized police report in order to have a better control of the available elements and to ensure greater transparency during its labor. Furthermore, it was indicated that public security agencies will be provided with artificial intelligence (AI) and crime pattern detection tools with the purpose of identifying the police and support capacity needed to respond to possible risk situations. 

To guarantee the safety of women in public spaces, Brugada proposed the construction of a thousand kilometers of "Free and Safe Women's Paths" throughout the city, adding the entire city to the project she established during her term as mayor of Iztapalapa, which resulted in a 50% decrease in the incidence of crime compared to the previous term. The project consists of remodeling avenues, streets, and public spaces through the implementation of video surveillance connected to the C5 system, emergency buttons, and new electrical installations (from wiring to lamps), all in the company of a greater number of auxiliary police elements.

"We will make a city where women feel safe in public space, along with strengthening the capacities of the network of gender shelters and with the implementation of renewed special strategies for the search and location of missing persons," declared the candidate.

This initiative has the potential to transform the security landscape in the Mexican City by tackling current crime challenges and set a precedent for future security policies, according to Bruga who bets on becoming "the most watched city in Latin America.”