341 JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES Carlos Barrachina Lisón Doctor in Political Science and Sociology. Professor at the University of Quintana Roo. The author thanks María del Pilar Merino and Elsa Gurrola support the deve-lopment of tables and graphs that are published at work. E-mail: cbarrachina@yahoo.com; barrachinac@uqroo.edu.mx. THE MEXICAN PATH TO A REFORM OF THE NATIONAL PUBLIC SECURI-TY SYSTEM: BUDGETARY EFFORT IN THE FEDERAL ENTITIES AND MUNI-CIPALITIES (2008-2015) Abstract This paper looks at the complicated situation that Mexico has been facing since the beginning of the National Public Security System reform pro-cess in 2006. The decision to reform Mexican security institutions had been delayed. When the country decided to face up to this challenge, both organized crime and the structural failings of the security agencies forced the government to take on a double challenge: to recover ungover-nable territories infiltrated by organized crime – for which the state will need to fall back on the Armed Forces, and to fully restructure the Na-tional Public Security System. This paper shows that the argument that Mexico doesn’t invest enough resources in public security is not in line with reality, but rather that precisely federal and municipal entities have invested the most. This argument that is in stark contrast to the scarce results that are to be seen forces society to take a concerned look at the destination and use of public resources and highlights the importance of the debate on the police «single command» in Mexican federal entities. Keywords Public Security Reform, Mexico, Armed Forces, Police, Budget, Single Command.
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