Operative staff has functions of judicial police, public safety, and fire prevention.
In the same year, the federal judicial police handled 196 trafficking files, compared with 184 in 2006.
The legal authorities have direct use of the judicial police.
This zone is under the responsibility of the judicial police.
American officials praised the Mexican federal judicial police for the arrest.
They were members of the judicial police who had falsified search warrants to hunt down witnesses.
Ministers also want "objective" proof by reference to judicial, police or social services process in which domestic violence was certified to have happened.
Five years ago, 17 unarmed peasants protesting logging were shot by the state's judicial police.
One senior official said simply: "We serve as the judicial police and as the judge.
When making declarations, we talk about the need to create a single judicial, police and legal area.