Albuquerque police outline manpower and roles for National Guard help

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | April 11, 2025 | Matthew Reisen

[CedarDave]

The Albuquerque Police Department has provided more details on just how many guardsmen will be used and what roles they will fill to assist officers after the governor declared a crime-related emergency in the city.

APD spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said Friday that 60 members of the New Mexico National Guard will fulfill non-law enforcement duties for the department starting in mid-May.

Of those deployed, 36 will help secure scenes and perimeters during incidents and investigations, 12 will help operate drones for the Real Time Crime Center, and 12 will work with the Prisoner Transport Center to “help evidence collection and other tasks that often delay officers from returning to the field for patrol.”

The guardsmen will not be armed or wearing fatigues, and they will not have law enforcement authority, according to APD and the NMNG.

The pilot project, as it has been described by Mayor Tim Keller, was announced Tuesday when Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared an emergency in Albuquerque to release $750,000 in funds for the deployment.

Medina and Keller have said the NMNG offered help earlier this year, and the plan has been in the works ever since.

Guardsmen are currently undergoing a lengthy training in Santa Fe to ready them for the mission.

[CedarDave]

The guardsmen will not be armed or wearing fatigues, and they will not have law enforcement authority, according to APD and the NMNG.

But they will work with the Prisoner Transport Center in collecting evidence. Having them without protection by being unarmed would seem to invite danger to them.

[aquila48]

“Albuquerque police outline manpower and roles for National Guard help”

Sounds like the police union doesn’t want competition or reduction in overtime pay.

[CedarDave]

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[BenLurkin]

Maybe it’s only the MP types, who have training in working undercover?

[rktman]

Dude. I am so sad for NM. ABQ is the downfall. When I first moved there, there weren’t even close to a million people in the whole state. Colorado used to be okay too. Now? Nope!

[ABStrauss]

Over twenty years ago I made a wise decision.

I moved from Albuquerque to Florida!

[wjcsux]

“Dude. I am so sad for NM. ABQ is the downfall. When I first moved there, there weren’t even close to a million people in the whole state. Colorado used to be okay too. Now? Nope!”
I’ve lived in both states. Both NM and CO used to be wonderful places to live, not anymore! AZ is rapidly following suit. Libtards from California are rapidly ruining the good places to live.

[rktman]

NV ain’t far behind.

[RetiredTexasVet]

More problems in North Mexico.

[frank ballenger]

The guardsmen will not be armed or wearing fatigues, and they will not have law enforcement authority,

I believe the higher ups in the Trump Administration should see this as a great danger to the Guard. The first ones killed by armed thugs will be on the head of the New Mexico leftist politicians.

Ghandi would have said "Are you nuts? Nonviolent people are going to get killed out there."

And if truly for office paper pushing (or deskstop equivalent now) then that is a waste of manpower. Or "person power?"

Idea. Send Self-Realization Fellowship monks and nuns to preach peace to them.

A little girl once said to the saffron robed Swami Anandamoy "You know, God loves all people. He loves everyone. Even you."

[maddog55]

So totally worthless... Bring in some A-10s doing straffing runs and few 1000lb JDAMS and the crime/violence will stop.

[Carriage Hill]

You win the Net today.

[vmpolesov]

Is ABQ a dump?

[ssapro]

I lived and worked there for four years in the early 2000’s. The PD had a section of the city they nicknamed the “War Zone”. It held up to its name. So, yes Albuquerque is a crime ridden dump.

[rxh4n1]

“Of those deployed, 36 will help secure scenes and perimeters during incidents and investigations”

They will draw the chalk outlines around the bodies, place markers where the shell casing were, and put up the crime scene tape.