Mexico has fired 10 pct of federal police in 2010 (AP)

AP - Mexico’s federal police agency has fired nearly 10 percent of its force this year for failing checks designed to detect possible corruption, a major obstacle in the country’s battle against increasingly brutal drug gangs.

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