Officially, Rosarito Beach is left with a force of 128 police officers patrolling the city with the support of the Mexican Navy, Mayor Rocío Adame Muñoz informed ZETA, upon concluding the process of analysis and control and confidence examinations implemented and coordinated between the State Secretariat of Citizen Security and the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) in Baja California, on March 7, 2025.
The administrative and legal issue surrounding each case of the officers who failed the control exams is a budgetary one. Of the 98 who failed, 50 could return to their positions as police officers, provided they resolve the inconsistencies. In the meantime, the City Council has decided to pay 30 percent of the salaries of the officers in question. He explained that a dismissal process is being considered for those officers who do not return, although the financial strategy for resolving each case is being defined.
“They are the ones who have to go to the C3 to resolve whatever has been planned there; we know there are other more complicated cases; even a person detained, for example, with a completed arrest warrant, well, that’s a different circumstance,” Adame said.
Regarding salary payments, he specified: “There is a 70 percent that is not being covered, but we did decide to maintain everyone’s salary at 30 percent so they can defend their cause and so that it isn’t so drastic that they don’t have any money to do so.”
Although Rosarito officially has a population of 126,000, the truth is that migration and tourism could increase the population by up to 50 percent, according to estimates from the National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Informatics (INEGI), projecting a need for 400 police officers. For now, the plan is to hire 25 cadets by the beginning of 2026.
“We have already begun sending 29 people who responded to a call from the Secretariat of Citizen Security to the Police Academy run by the Attorney General’s Office, so they can begin the academy,” explained the mayor.
