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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/entire-police-department-quits.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Municipal police complain they are outnumbered and outgunned by Mexico's brutal drug cartels" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-entire-police-department-quits.jpg" alt="Municipal police complain they are outnumbered and outgunned by Mexico's brutal drug cartels"/></a></p>
<p>The police chief and all 38 police officers of a north-eastern Mexican town have quit following a series of drug cartel attacks, including the decapitation of two of their colleagues.</p>
<p>Soldiers, state and federal police had been deployed to patrol General Teran, a town along a drug-smuggling route to the US border, said Mayor Ramon Villagomez.</p>
<p>The police quit after the discovery of the mutilated bodies of two officers who had been kidnapped by gunmen two days earlier.</p>
<p>The killings followed three attacks on the police headquarters since December. Gunmen hurled grenades and sprayed the building with machine-gun fire.</p>
<p>Mr Villagomez said another police officer has been missing for weeks in the town of 14,500 people south-west of the industrial city of Monterrey.</p>
<p>Mass police resignations have been common in small towns in Mexico.</p>
<p>Municipal police complain they are outnumbered and outgunned by Mexico&#8217;s brutal drug cartels, who frequently stage bold attacks on security forces with semiautomatic assault rifles and grenades.</p>
<p>President Felipe Calderon has introduced a proposal in Congress to dissolve Mexico&#8217;s more than 2,000 municipal police forces. They would be replaced by a single force for each of Mexico&#8217;s 31 states.</p>
<p>Municipal police are generally underpaid and susceptible to corruption. Many have only an elementary school education. In some towns, police have protested that they lack bullets and flak jackets.</p>
<p>Mr Villagomez said General Teran&#8217;s officers earned around 9,200 pesos (£478) per month.</p>
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