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Columbus is an incorporated village in Luna County, New Mexico, United States, about 3 miles (5 km) north of the Mexican border.It is considered a place of historical interest, as the scene of a 1916 attack by Mexican general Francisco "Pancho" Villa that caused the United States to send 10,000 troops there in the Mexican Expedition (originally referred to as the "punitive Mexican Expedition").
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of New Mexico. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics ' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 146 law enforcement agencies employing 5,010 sworn police officers, about 252 for each 100,000 residents.
As police needs increased, the Mounted Patrol was renamed the New Mexico Mounted Police in 1905 and became the state's first law enforcement agency when New Mexico achieved statehood in 1912. [ 3 ] Criminal elements of the state government repeatedly attempted to get rid of the Mounted Police and even succeeded in defunding the agency from 1913 ...
Jul. 3—An online database of police misconduct cases in New Mexico went live this week, giving the public a window into which police officers have been accused of misconduct statewide. State ...
A former Columbus police officer who admitted to being drunk behind the wheel when prosecutors say he hit and killed a woman in 2022 has been sentenced to 1 ½ years in prison.. Demetris Ortega ...
Robberies, murders and other major crimes are down in Columbus this year, police say. Kelby Hutchison. October 25, 2024 at 10:54 AM.
NMDPS was created by the enactment of the Department of Public Safety Act in 1986. The department brought together the formerly independent New Mexico State Police, the Governor's Organized Crime Commission, the Motor Transportation Division of the Taxation and Revenue Department, the enforcement division of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, and the New Mexico law enforcement ...
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