Sinaloa shifts security funds toward services and training
By Cartel Insider Wire Desk · Edited by Mica Treviño
Original reporting: Revista Espejo
What happened
Revista Espejo reports that jointly funded security allocations rose 8.5% between the first halves of 2024 and 2026, while the share assigned to property and assets fell and training funding more than doubled.
Reporting and context
Sinaloa shifted a larger share of its jointly funded public security resources toward services, personnel and police training between the first halves of 2024 and 2026, as the state faced the internal Sinaloa Cartel war that erupted in September 2024, according to Revista Espejo.
The outlet reported that total agreed funding rose 8.5%, from 419.3 million to 455.1 million pesos. Over the same period, allocations for movable property, real estate and intangible assets fell from 230.5 million to 144.6 million pesos. Their share of the total dropped from 55% to 31.8%, while general services increased from 78 million to 140.7 million pesos.
The figures cover two funds jointly financed by the federal and Sinaloa governments: the Public Security Contributions Fund, known as FASP, and the Fund for Strengthening Public Security Institutions, or FOFISP. They describe agreed funding, rather than establishing that every peso was spent. Espejo linked the change in allocations to a greater emphasis on services and operations after three consecutive years of increases in the property and asset category through the first half of 2024.
Police training and professional development recorded the largest percentage increase described in the report, rising from 11 million to 24.4 million pesos, or 122.6%. Personnel allocations increased 22.1%, from 53.09 million to 64.82 million pesos, covering fees and temporary salaries for C4i staff, investigative and personnel-vetting units, as well as additional personnel.
Travel and allowances increased 20.7%, while public communications and advertising rose 12.7%. Maintenance funding for communications equipment, video surveillance, radio systems and emergency systems grew 10.6%, from 27.8 million to 30.7 million pesos. Telecommunications, connections and internet allocations fell 14.8%, from 4.73 million to 4.03 million pesos.
Espejo reported that FASP receives approximately 70% federal funding and 30% state funding, while FOFISP uses an equal federal-state split. The comparison documents a change in funding priorities during the security crisis; it does not measure whether those allocations reduced violence.
Original reporting: Revista Espejo.