Tijuana police disarmed

January 07, 2007

Mexican police hand in their weapons as part of a crackdown on organised crime. A favourite weekend party town for U.S. college kids, Tijuana has been caught up in a conflict between rival drugs gangs that killed some 2,000 people last year. Police in Mexico, normally underpaid, poorly trained and ill equipped, are widely perceived as inept and corrupt, and critics allege many Tijuana cops have sold out to drug gangs.