Mexico City: 60 Police Officers Arrested in Two Years; Kidnapping and Homicide Among the Crimes Committed

ByKevin Ruiz

This article by Kevin Ruiz originally appeared in the August 22, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left-wing daily newspaper.

Kidnappings, homicides, abuse of authority, and extortion are the main crimes in which officers of the capital’s police force have been implicated between 2024 and 2026, which is why the Attorney General’s Office (FGJ) has arrested 60 officers.

The list of offenses on record at the agency consists, first and foremost, of kidnapping, homicide, extortion, robbery, unlawful deprivation of liberty, torture, rape, femicide, abusive exercise of authority, forced disappearance of persons, and even cases of domestic violence.

For these high-impact offenses, at least 34 arrest warrants have been carried out against that number of active officers of the Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC), according to the data consulted.

In 2024, control judges issued two warrants for the same number of agents; in 2025, they granted 24 to arrest 42, meaning that, according to the case files, more than one officer was involved in some cases. This year, eight warrants have been executed, with 16 arrests.

During that period, the involvement of these officers was established, all of them active (mainly preventive police, that is, officers assigned to various citizen protection units), who account for the bulk of the arrests, with 46. Next come those assigned to the Auxiliary Police, with 11.

Just this past July 16, the SSC itself reported the arrest of five capital police officers under judicial warrants issued by a control judge for robbery and attempted homicide. The accused were brought before a judge, who first imposed pretrial detention on them but, at the continuation hearing, ended up granting them their release, which led the capital’s attorney general, Bertha Alcalde, to state that she would challenge the order declining to bind the agents over to trial.

The disaggregated data reveal that for kidnapping there were 20 police officers arrested, and 2025 was the peak year, when 16 arrest warrants were carried out, while this year there have been four. The same occurred with homicides, a crime for which there have been 11 arrests, with 2025 having the most records, eight, and three so far this year.

Abuse of authority accounts for five warrants carried out, most of them in 2025. Extortion is one of the priority crimes that the capital’s authorities combat, and it too is committed by officers; the investigations led to the capture of four police officers during that period.

The sources specified that the involvement of all these officers, and of others linked to open case files, has been both direct and indirect.