349 Carlos Barrachina Lisón The Mexican path to a reform of the National Public... In the context in which we are analysing Mexico’s security policy, the budget alloca-ted to this aspect should not be understood strictly as that allocated to «public safety», as there are many players involved who have thrown almost all of their resources into fighting organised crime domestically, and into the reform of the security sector at the federal, state and municipal level. It would be unfair to ignore the efforts made by the-se agencies and entities. To fully understand expenditure on security, it is necessary to take into consideration spending by institutions such as SEDENA, the Secretariat of the Navy (SEMAR), as well as money invested by federal entities in the public security secretariats or their equivalents, and in access to justice. In a sense, the big question we should be asking ourselves after seeing this informa-tion is how this money was spent and why the results are so unsatisfactory if the State and the state and municipal entities invested so much. Here, the amount invested has been calculated at 136,930,000,000 dollars between 2008 and 201534. Perhaps this is to do with the «security traps», or with the «powerful seizure of the state» in different territories and not so much to do with the lack of resources that substantially and continually increased between 2008 and 2015. BUDGETARY OUTLAY FOR FEDERAL AND MUNICIPAL ENTITIES (2008-2015). The success of the reform of the Nation Public Security System lies in there being professional and competent police forces across the entire national territory. As has been shown, the debate as to how to make this possible is ongoing. There is no den-ying the important budgetary outlay made to attain this goal over the past year, but the results of such a large investment are questionable. In this «valley of transition», we need to ask ourselves if this investment has been effective. Like all public initiatives, we will be able to find examples of success and of failure; however, it is undeniable that, in general, there is still a long way to go to achieve the desired aim in an effective manner. In this paper, we focus on drawing up a summary of the resources invested and on explaining the different support programmes that were set up to strengthen the national public security system, particularly in the states and municipalities bet-ween http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee 2008 and 2015. strategic decision than an economic one. VALDÉS, Guillermo. Historia del narcotráfico en México, México: Aguilar, 2013, p.452-453. 34 Faced with this amount of resources invested by the Mexican authorities, the $1.3 billion from the Mérida Initiative of the $2.275 billion authorised between 2008 y 2015 does constitute a generous support from the government of the United States but is certainly not a determining factor nor is it worthy of the excessive media attention it has received (at least as regards the amount of resources received). Source: For 2008 and 2009. CRS (2008). For 2010-2015 CRS (2015). Due to the difficulty involved, budgets for the municipal security secretariats have not been included, meaning that the amount of money invested in security and access to justice is higher.
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