MEXICO CITY – Police force members in three southern Mexican towns have been decommissioned because of links to the case of 43 students who went missing three weeks ago, according to local press reports.
The operation was carried out Sunday in the towns of Arcelia, Taxco and Buena Vista de Cuellar, all near the town of Iguala where the students disappeared.
In the move, the officers were relieved of their duties and their radio communications equipment was seized for analysis by the intelligence division of the Federal Police, the reports said Sunday.
The federal government is expected to take over the security duties is the three towns as it did in Cocula and Iguala to investigate if they are also under the control of the United Warriors crime cartel.
According to investigators, police in Iguala and Cocula may be primarily responsible for the disappearance of the 43 students on September 26, following an altercation in which six people were killed and 25 others wounded.
Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca also went missing after the incident
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