20 year old takes command of Police: Garcia Marisol Valles

The young Garcia Marisol Valles, 20, married and a student of criminology, took in a climate of fear the police headquarters of the municipality Praxedis G. Guerrero, Chihuahua, located in one of the most violent regions in Mexico . "Here everyone is afraid , said the new head of Public Safety Praxedis, who promised to change this climate for a safety . "We will change that fear for safety", said during an interview on Televisa, and said her job will be preventive to remember that by law the city police not pursue crimes related to organized crime .

Marisol Valles on Tuesday took the title of Public Safety, which has 19 municipal police officers, nine of them women . The new official, who has drawn media attention for their courage and youth, said her project is "to prevent crime is human attention, Praxedis G. Mayor Guerrero, Jose Luis Guerrero, said Marisol match the profile and that although young, has "values and principles" necessary for the position . He added that also has experience because "it is to finish the race in criminology." Praxedis is a hundred kilometers from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city with more than 6 000 killings since 2008. This week were murdered municipal commissioner of El Porvenir (owned by Praxedis) Grade Rite Serrano, 59, and his son Rigoberto Degree Villa, 37. In Mexico there are more than 200 000 traffic wardens, and the chain of the country's security forces are the most vulnerable link in the chain . Federal authorities have acknowledged that the threat of "or silver or lead (money or death)" thousands of municipal police have cooperated with drug traffickers, passing drug shipments, alerting them to federal forces operating or acting as their henchmen . In the country there are municipalities in which police officers assigned there, others have few and poorly armed, and have at least several thousand, according to the number of its inhabitants, but most of those municipal officers have an average salary 320 dollars.

A 20-year-old criminology student has been named the chief of police in one of the most dangerous municipalities in Mexico's violence-wracked northern state of Chihuahua.

Marisol Valles Garcia, the only person to accept the post, took charge of public security for Guadalupe Distrito Bravo on Monday, according to radio station network Notisistema. The district has a population of 9,148 residents, according to newspaper La Jornada, and comes with at least one police car and two pairs of policemen, Notisistema reported.

The state of Chihuahua has borne the brunt of spiraling drug-related violence that has left around 28,000 dead throughout Mexico in the last four years. Guadalupe's former mayor was assassinated in June, and local police have been kidnapped and murdered. At least eight people were slain in the last week alone in Guadalupe, news.com.au reported.

Valles said during her swearing in that her job will not be to fight drug trafficking because that responsibility falls on other organs of government, according to Notisistema.  Instead, she will focus on preventative programs for schools and neighborhoods, rehabilitating public spaces and fostering better relationships between neighbors in order to improve general security, according to Notisistema.

She has not discarded the possibility of creating a cycling police force, according to Notisistema.

Guadalupe lies in the Valle de Juarez, which is thought to be controlled by Gabino Salas Valenciano, aka The Engineer, La Jornada reported. Salas is part of the the Sinaloa cartel, which is led by Joaquin El Chapo Guzman.