Rosarito Beach Impliments Tourist Police to Improve Traveler Safety

North American Residents look for Security Improvements in Baja California
We have received first hand reports from several readers who live in the Pacific Region of Baja California between San Quentin and the US Border. They told us tales of corruption and daylight intimidation that cause many long time visitors of Baja to as one reader put it "Lick their wounds and vowed never to return."

These readers also told of significant improvements in the situation since the Mexican Military intervened in November. They are hopeful that the degree of safety will continue to improve with the change in political atmosphere in both Rosarito Beach and Tijuana.

Editorial: The addition of these new patrols with video equipped trucks could prove a turning point in questions of and incidents of police corruption. With the cameras providing ambivilant witness to the interaction between a police officer and the person in question, a transparency to an event which should be a very public act and serves to indemnify both the acussed and the officer.

In car cameras have made inroads in combatting corruption in problem places like Los Angeles and New Orleans. There becomes no doubt in questions of resisting arrest or taking bribes if the camera is working. There in will lie the hinge pin; How long with the cameras remain 'working'.

New 18-Member Rosarito Tourist Police Force Starts Patrols By Cars, 4-Wheelers and Bikes
ROSARITO BEACH, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO---With a March 14 ceremony, city officials here launched an 18-member Tourist Police force which will patrol areas frequented by Rosarito’s more than one million visitors a year.The force will patrol areas including the downtown, Puerto Nuevo Lobster Village and Popotla Boulevard, home to arts and crafts shops and Xploration Studios, where “Titanic” and other movies were filmed.