For Badr, which has made a point of installing police commanders in several key provinces, such government involvement would mean the Supreme Council would lose sole control over police and related security force jobs.
Now, on the school's basketball pitch, the recently appointed state prosecutor of Baja California, Rommel Moreno Manjarrez, is joined by newly installed police chief Elijio Montes to reassure teenagers.
The state security secretary, José Mariano Beltrame, said the Amnesty report was "reckless and misleading" because it failed to recognised that crime levels are down and killings by police have fallen by 85% in favelas where they have installed police pacification units, a programme aimed at reclaiming territories from drug dealers.
"The stadium is virtually finished," he says, "but there are still cash machines to be installed, police control and stadium radio systems to put in.
The Tories would like to install elected police commissioners, but are squabbling internally about how much power to give them.
Starting in 2008, in advance of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics — Brazil is hosting both — Rio's government began an effort to wrest control from local drug gangs and install community police units (called U.P.P.'s) in its favelas.
The 12-month pilot program I proposed, which would install 10 police security cameras on public streets in high-crime areas of the Town of Huntington, is modeled after similar programs already put into effect by dozens of cities and towns across the nation.
The Tories would get around this by installing elected police commissioners, who would set policing priorities and manage budgets.
Number-plate readers have been installed on police cars in a number of cities, including Los Angeles.
More than 55,000 shells have been installed in police and military vehicles, at a cost of around $4,500 each.
