The Sinaloa Secretary of Tourism along with hotel and tourism service associations held a Christmas posada yesterday for Mazatlán municipal police, transport police and civil protection agents at a beach club on Av. Sábalo Cerritos.
In speeches by Tourism Secretary Franciso Córdova Celaya and Mazatlán Mayor Carlos Felton, the police department was praised for the decline in crime in the municipality and subsequent increase in tourism.
Reporters at the posada questioned Mayor Felton about his recent comments that all was well in Mazatlán, pointing out there were seven murders in the past 11 days in the municipality. The Mayor replied the municipal chief of police would give more information about the crimes, but that Mazatlán has a good image and for this reason cruise ships are returning to port.
Secretary of Municipal Public Security, Juan Antonio Murillo Rojo, answered that unfortunately crimes did occur in the city and the ideal was to have none, but there was not one city in the world without crime. Even in Switzerland, he pointed out, murders are committed. Nonetheless, he continued, murders in the municipality have fallen 35 percent from last year.
(from Noroeste)
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