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Tamaulipas State Police Policía Estatal de Tamaulipas Fuerza Tamaulipas | |
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Common name | Tamaulipas Force |
Jurisdictional structure | |
Operations jurisdiction | MEX |
Location of the state of Tamaulipas in Mexico | |
Size | 80,249km2 |
Population | 3,374,200 (2012) |
Legal jurisdiction | Tamaulipas |
General nature | |
Operational structure | |
Headquarters | Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas |
Website | |
Official site(In spanish) |
The Tamaulipas State Police ( Spanish: Policía estatal de Tamaulipas), also known as the Tamaulipas Force ( Spanish: Fuerza Tamaulipas), is a state agency of law enforcement in Tamaulipas, Mexico. It operates public safety services. It is a division of the Secretariat of Public Safety of Tamaulipas ( Spanish: Secretaría de Seguridad Pública de Tamaulipas).
The state police academy is located in Colonia Benito Juárez in Ciudad Victoria. [1]
The agency operates the state of Tamaulipas's prisons for adults. Each is called a "Centro de Rehabilitacion Social" (CERESO, "Social Rehabilitation Center"). [2] As of 2010 the state has eight prisons with almost 8,000 prisoners. 25% of the prisoners faced federal charges. [3]
The prisons include: