SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — About 7,000 local and state police officers in Tijuana, all licensed to carry firearms, have been told they can’t take on part-time work as armed security guards in the region.
Earlier this week, Laureano Carrillo Rodríguez, head of Tijuana’s Public Safety, issued the new policy based on existing federal laws that govern the use of weapons and explosives.
“It prohibits municipal and state agents, who are licensed to carry arms for a police department, from providing private security services,” Carrillo Rodríguez said…