Public safety official brings in reforms to try and clean up police corruption

Описание: (20 Dec 2009) SHOTLIST
October 17, 2009
1. Wide of Public Safety Secretary Julian Leyzaola walking with bodyguard
2. Wide of Leyzaola inspecting medical forensic service vehicle
November 26, 2009
3. Wide of Leyzaola talking to reporter before his class
4. Wide of police listening to Leyzaola speaking in classroom
5. Mid of Leyzaola talking
October 21, 2009
6. Wide of recruits marching
7. Wide of recruits conducting a simulated operation
November 27, 2009
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) No name given, Police Training Director:
"All of our trainers here are fully trained."
9. Mid of policeman with assault weapon AUDIO gun shots
10. Close up of a police badge
11. Close up of a rifle
12. Policewoman doing target practice AUDIO gun shots
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) No name given, Police Training Director:
"If we comply with the guidelines that the federal government gives us for capacitating, we'll always have resources for the police, for uniforms, for equipment to patrol, for arms, for ammunition and for training materials, which is the area that we represent."
November 26, 2009
14. Wide exterior of training centre for police with armed officer in foreground ++NIGHT SHOT++
15. Wide interior of training recruits with teacher
16. Close up of student looking at police manual
17. Wide of federal police trainer with students in classroom
FILE: April 27, 2009
++NIGHT SHOTS++
18. Wide of scene of crime where police died
19. Investigators at scene
20. Wide exterior of Oxxo convenience store where police were killed
May 4, 2009
21. Wide of Tijuana mayor Jorge Ramos and chief Leyzaola remembering fallen policemen as they stand beside their coffins
22. Mid of Leyzaola by coffin
23. Wide of police saluting fallen soldiers
November 29, 2009
24. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Patricia Isaias, Widow of fallen policeman:
"He left bothered. He didn't say goodbye to our daughter nor to me, and that's what hurts now even still. We didn't say goodbye and he left."
25. Close up of picture of slain policeman with daughter in his arms
26. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Patricia Isaias, Widow of fallen policeman:
"I didn't believe it. I said, 'don't play with me, it's a lie,' and he said, 'Paty, they killed him.' I said 'no.'"
27. Mid of altar with photo of Isaias' husband
28. Wide of daughter and widow getting into their car
STORYLINE
Tijuana is seeing its most aggressive police reform to date, a mix of counter-terror and community policing, in a bid to clean up the corrupt police force of the Mexican city.
The bold move is being led by Tijuana's Public Safety Secretary Julian Leyzaola.
After 25 years in the army and stints running Baja California's state prisons and police, Leyzaola moved to the police department in 2007 to be at the centre of the fight against organised crime.
If it works, it could be a model for other violent hot spots and a breakthrough in a drug war in the country that has seen more than 14,000 lives lost during the last three years.
Some officers in this border city serve as the eyes and ears of drug lords with those who take on the cartels becoming targets and are often killed.
The Associated Press followed Leyzaola for eight months as he rallied troops, consoled officers' widows and appealed to jaded residents for support.
Leyzaola's plan is to begin in quieter areas and end in 2011 in the east, the city's most violent section, where Teodoro "El Teo" Garcia Simental wages a vicious campaign to take over Tijuana's drug trade from the Arellano Felix family.
Firstly the plan for each district is a strike force of officers sent out to make a slew of arrests.

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