Estado de México Immediate Search Command Center for missing persons, Digi Mart USA News (Toluca, Estado de México): Governor Delfina Gómez Álvarez has put into operation the Immediate Search Alert Command Center in the state. The center is designed to coordinate the institutions responsible for searching for missing persons, share information, and activate actions from the first moment a case becomes known.
The initiative is part of the national strategy promoted by President Claudia Sheinbaum to strengthen the search for missing persons. It aims to improve coordination among different levels of government, make use of technological tools, and ensure that authorities act immediately.
According to the state government, the center seeks to meet one of the main demands of families of missing persons: that institutions act without delay, in a coordinated way, and follow up on search efforts. The operational coordination will be led by the State Missing Persons Search Commission (COBUPEM), an administrative body under the Legal Counsel’s Office.
Participating institutions include the National Search Commission, the state Security Secretariat, the State Attorney General’s Office, the National Guard, and the National Defense Secretariat. The center will concentrate national alerts and disappearance reports known to participating institutions and establish direct communication among their liaisons.
The center will also have technological and video surveillance tools to support monitoring, analysis, and information exchange. Authorities say this will speed up location efforts and allow permanent follow-up on search actions.
Officials emphasized that the coordination scheme will not replace the functions of the authorities responsible for searches, public security, or criminal investigations, and that each agency will retain its own legal powers. Officials attending the launch included Horacio Duarte Olivares, Secretary General of Government; Cristóbal Castañeda Camarillo, Secretary of Security; Jesús George Zamora, Legal Counsel; Juan Carlos Valdés, Director of Analysis and Context of the National Search Commission; and Avelino Blanco Guido, Commissioner for the Search of Missing Persons of the State of Mexico.
