SAFE MUNICIPALITY
Municipal Public Security
The municipality of Querétaro has formed a first-rate police system, well trained and with the best working conditions. The programs of the Axis 1 Safe Municipality: Reliable Police, Prevention and Alert establish comprehensive security strategies that involve the use of technologies for the timely monitoring of activities in public spaces and the promotion of actions aimed at recreation, culture and sport, with the certainty that these strengthen social cohesion.
The security programs described below establish objectives and specific strategies for joint work and synergy between society and the 3 levels of government to build a culture of crime prevention, thus reducing risk factors and criminal actions.
PROGRAM FOR RELIABLE POLICE
1,040 evaluations were carried out on municipal police personnel, which were broken down as follows:
Source: Municipality of Querétaro. Ministry of Municipal Public Security, 2022.
PREVIENE PROGRAM (meaning Prevent)
Its objective is to contribute to the reduction of the incidence of crime in the municipality through social, situational, community and psychosocial prevention mechanisms. Working very closely with citizens and carrying out educational, community, sports, artistic-cultural, psychosocial and socio-productive activities, it strengthens the cohesion of the social fabric to reduce violence and crime.
The municipality has four Comprehensive Social Prevention Centers (CIPRES, for its Spanish acronym) that work under the approach of strengthening social cohesion, promoted through 4,099 workshops, courses and trainings that benefited 29,018 residents in 50 neighborhoods. The activities were carried out with the support of 43 community promoters together with 50 institutions. It is important to mention that 25,233 citizens attended the CIPRES centers.
SCHOOL PATROLLING PROGRAM
Focused on benefiting the younger population of the municipality of Querétaro, its most important activities include:
The Municipal Guard Directorate in cooperation with the Ministry of Municipal Public Security implemented the Preventive Road Device Take Life Seriously, with the objective of providing greater security to the citizens and preventing traffic accidents caused by drivers driving under the influence of intoxicating beverages, obtaining the following results:
ALERT PROGRAM
As part of the preventive and security actions, the Ministry of Municipal Public Security of Querétaro (SSPMQ for its Spanish abbreviation), through the Municipal Guard Directorate performed the following actions:
Civil Protection
The main purpose of the Municipal Civil Protection Coordination (CMPC for its Spanish abbreviation) is to guarantee compliance with security measures in commercial, industrial and service establishments.
In 2021, the CMPC implemented 43 special projects through 246 courses and 14,422 trainings given in its own facilities, the following table specifies the topics that were covered:
Culture, sports and recreation
CULTURE
Culture promotes the common good and well-being in a constant, inclusive and democratic manner, encouraging citizen participation. In these practices we find the collective possibilities of transformation and progress of a society.
The Ministry of Culture of the municipality of Querétaro guarantees its inhabitants the exercise of ancestral richness, strengthening cultural and artistic practices through the activation of their historical memory through libraries, preserving traditions and generating a sense of belonging among the inhabitants of the seven districts.
SPORTS AND RECREATION
The municipality of Querétaro, through the Sports and Recreation Institute, adapted its operations during 2021 due to sanitary restrictions due to COVID-19. It contributed inter-institutionally to the Temporary Employment Program, employing 115 people from February to March, 25 of them as collaborators in administrative activities typical of sports venues, and the remaining 90 in preventive and corrective maintenance tasks for the sports venues.
Physical activities did not stop during the contingency. On March 2021, the annual "Querétaro Night Race" was held in virtual mode, with the participation of 2,396 women and 2,064 men. Other tasks that supported the activities included the donation of uniforms for 599 representatives of leagues, academies and sports clubs.
Institute to prevent risk behaviors
To encourage citizen participation in creating healthy habits and lifestyles, the municipality of Querétaro has created an institute that seeks to propose, implement, and develop public policies to protect the fundamental right to physical and mental health of the population who is in vulnerable circumstances due to ignorance and the inability to notice the risk of engaging in certain behaviors.
During 2021, the institute carried out the following programs:
