government had proposed the creation of a new unit to replace all Federal Police duties. Federal Police would not be disbanded but would be assigned to special tasks & missions. Additional information on Mexico's planned Gendarmerie ("The 'National Gendarmerie' and Mexico's Crime Fighting Plans," MexiData.info, Dec. 24, 2012). The final product is the 2014 creation of the Federal Police's Gendarmerie Division, with 5,000 police agents. Its focus is on providing ongoing public security in areas with heavy criminal activities and providing border security. It is also expected to reinforce state, city and municipal police forces when the need arises. It is one of the seven constituent divisions of the Federal Police reporting directly to the Commissioner, and the newest to be raised. The National Gendarmerie is defined as a military grade force within the Federal Police. Lopez Obrador's administration Before becoming President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador campaigned on a promise to take the military off the streets of Mexico. Shortly after getting into office, Obrador released a plan to create the National Guard under control of the Mexican Armed Forces which would be in charge of "preventing and combating crime". Obrador stated that the new National Guard would be critical to solving Mexico's ongoing security crisis. On 28 February, the Mexico's General Congress voted to approve a 60,000-member national guard. On 30 June 2019, the National Guard was officially established in the Constitution of Mexico. The new National Guard, de facto successor to a similar formation raised in 1821 and abolished in 1935, is composed today of personnel from parts of both the National Gendarmerie and Federal Forces Divisions of the Federal Police. Strength In 2000, the PF had 10,878 agents and staff: 4,899 from the Mexican army's 3rd Brigade of the Military Police (), included two military police battalions and an Assault Battalion. 4,000 from the Federal Highway Police () 1,500 from the Fiscal Police (Policía Fiscal Federal) 600 from the Interior Ministry's Center of National Security And Investigation () – Mexican intelligence agency. Organization Regulation of the Law of the Federal Police in the Official Gazette of May 17, 2010, to establish the basic organizational structure of this Decentralized Administrative Body, Article 5 of that system, comprising a total of 136 seats of middle and senior management, broken 130 seats structure, as shown below: 1 General Commissioner; 7 Divisions: Intelligence Research, Regional Security; Scientific, Drug, Federal