Governor Alfonso Durazo Montaño announced the strengthening of Sonora’s security strategy through the approval of four projects focused on technology, surveillance, and police equipment, funded through the Trust for Competitiveness and Citizen Security (Ficoseg), a resource obtained from corporate income tax contributions.
These actions aim to expand monitoring infrastructure, install highway checkpoints, and reinforce operational units, with the goal of improving crime prevention and response capacity in strategic municipalities throughout the state.
Ficoseg operates as a key financing instrument for state security and is funded by contributions from companies with more than 100 employees, which allocate 1% of their payroll tax, generating annual revenue of nearly one billion pesos.
The governor highlighted that, as part of these actions promoted through the Public Security Secretariat, the installation of 26 new highway checkpoints and 150 Intelligent Monitoring Points is planned in municipalities such as Hermosillo, Cajeme, and San Luis Río Colorado.
We have already begun, and there is a very committed collaboration from the business sector, which I am very pleased about and which gives us the budgetary capacity to strengthen and address the needs of the security areas and thereby enhance their response capabilities. “It’s no coincidence that security indicators in the state have been improving,” the Governor stated.
Each Smart Monitoring Point will be equipped with four cameras linked to the operational capabilities of the Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Coordination, and Intelligence Center (C5i Sonora), which will strengthen surveillance, monitoring, and response by security forces.
Among the approved projects is the equipping of 92 ground units, including armored tactical vehicles and operational units, to reinforce security and improve service in priority areas of the state.
Source: elimparcial
