The anti-corruption prosecutors’ offices in Nayarit, Sinaloa, Morelos and Mexico City performed poorly in a report by the 2023-2024 Anti-Corruption Citizen Observatory, prepared by TOJIL, a civil society organization that evaluates these agencies in five aspects: legal framework, resources, human capital, processes and results.
Nayarit performed poorly in all five areas, while Sinaloa performed poorly in the resources area and poorly in the other four; Mexico City had a negative balance with poor and average indicators, and Morelos had a null performance in the results category, as well as a poor performance in most of the sections analyzed in the first half of 2024.
In terms of the legal framework, the Sinaloa Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office had a poor rating for lacking internal regulations, a procedures manual, investigation protocols, hearing protocols, witness protection, controlled deliveries, undercover operations, internal corruption, and guidelines on opportunity criteria.
The Nayarit Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office did not report on the assigned budget: budget request, budget independence, purchase or rental of furniture and computing, and software on process management.
For their part, the prosecutor’s offices of Mexico City and Morelos had a regular performance in that area.
In addition, TOJIL highlighted that 11 anti-corruption prosecutor’s offices lack autonomy as they are appointed by the state prosecutor and not by the local Congress. Among these entities, those of Morelos, Aguascalientes, State of Mexico and Chiapas were singled out.
In terms of resources, only Campeche, Coahuila and Durango reported an outstanding performance, having an assigned budget and using it to equip their facilities and their collaborators.
The NGO detected that the anti-corruption prosecutors’ offices of Nayarit, Sinaloa and Mexico City lack budgetary independence and do not have software for process management, while the Morelos office, additionally, did not have buildings, rented vehicles, computer equipment or furniture.
In terms of human capital, the institutions of Sinaloa, Morelos and Mexico City had a poor rating, having few experts, investigative police, ministerial officials and personnel training.
For their part, Morelos, Nayarit and Sinaloa had a poor performance in the area of processes, being limited in terms of investigation processes and mechanisms, and means of reporting, according to the analysis.
In that section, Mexico City was rated as average, since despite having almost all the processes, it does not have full coverage.
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of Guerrero registered the lowest number of investigations in the first half of 2024, with four open cases.
For its part, the Sinaloa office only registered 11 investigations initiated in that same period, compared to the State of Mexico, which opened 1,729 investigations, so the performance of the entity governed by Rubén Rocha Moya was considered the second poorest in the country.
The few investigations in Sinaloa, TOJIL explained, could be the result of the reduced number of personnel, which prevents even capturing the real incidence.
The Mexican capital opened 355 investigations in the first six months of 2024, for which it was rated as average, while Nayarit registered 180 and Morelos had a null performance.
TOJIL pointed out that the methodology of the study is based on the information provided by the anti-corruption prosecutors’ offices, so “it is not an exact reflection of the situation of some prosecutors’ offices,” since some were able to reserve information or made progress in the second half of the year.
Source: Latinus.us
