Attorney General of Mexico
The Procuraduría General de la República (PGR ) is the Attorney General's Office in Mexico and political body. It is run by the Procurator General de la República ( de México ), comparable to a Attorney General.
In the area of responsibility of the PGR is the development and monitoring of the state constitution and the administration of justice. The duties of a part for the purposes of internal security, the provision with regard to the prevention of crime.
Originally, the national Federal Criminal Police ( Policía Judicial Federal) was subordinate to the PGR. Because of the many stories of corruption and abuse in 2001 founded the Vicente Fox government then the Agencia Federal de Investigación, an FBI with the comparable institution. This was 2009 in the Policía Federal on.