Mexico's Secretary of Security and Civilian Protection (SSPC), Omar García Harfuch —the country's top security official—has introduced and developed a new elite force tasked with combating high impact crimes involving drug cartels.
The National Operations Unit (UNO, for its acronym in Spanish) force has already participated in multiple operations involving high-impact situations. According to SSPC officials, agents were involved in the recent extradition of 29 organized crime leaders wanted by the U.S. government, as well as in the seizure of clandestine laboratories and in the arrest of so-called "generators of violence." They were also deployed to conflict zones such as Sinaloa to combat drug trafficking organizations.
