The real cost of Sydney’s cocaine addiction is paid for by the murder of Mexican policeman

New CCTV footage shows the cold blooded murder of a police chief ambushed while he was buying a morning coffee. Warning: Graphic

The real price for cocaine and ice is being paid on the streets of Mexico.

New CCTV footage shows the cold blooded murder of a police chief in a cafe in Guadalajara, ambushed while he was buying a morning coffee.

Two women and two men sit on tables outside the glass sliding doors at the entrance of the Ganik cafe, the video shows.

When deputy Carlos Manuel Flores Amezcua of Zapopan police walks towards the door, they pounce, shooting him in the back.

More shots are fired as he lies on the ground before the callous shooters flee.

The notorious Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), which controls billions of dollars of drug shipments each year, was suspected of ordering the attack.

The same cartel was linked to a $61 million cocaine shipment intercepted by Australian Border Force on Melbourne’s docks, which was made public this week.

CCTV of the murder of Zapopan Police deputy commissioner, Carlos Manuel Flores Amezcua in Mexico this month. Picture: Twitter

Felipe de Jesús Gallo Gutiérrez, head of Mexico’s criminal investigation agency, said there was a “high level” of violence in his country, with police often directly targeted.

He said Jalisco had now become “more famous because of the CJNG” and their violence.

“High calibre weapons are coming to Mexico from the US,” he said in an interview with this masthead in his office in Mexico City earlier this year.

“Those large weapons, the 223, are the ones preferred by the cartels.”

Zapopan Police deputy commissioner, Carlos Manuel Flores Amezcua was killed in Mexico this month. Picture: Twitter

Father of three Amezcua had been a police officer for 27 years before he was murdered at 10.04am on November 15 in that cafe in Guadalajara.

There were 18 bullet shell cartridges found at the scene, according to investigators.

The killers used the two women, who were both carrying guns, to make them look less suspicious.

Amezcua had a bodyguard, like many police in Mexico, but he was parking the car they travelled in when he was shot.

Women were used as assassins to trick a Mexican cop before he was executed. Picture: Twitter

It’s just the latest in a string of violence on police in the world’s wholesale drug market distributor.

There were 11 police killed in a cartel ambush in Coyuca de Benitez, 35km west of popular tourist beach resort town Acapulco, in October.

The police convoy was stopped by at least 30 gunmen in a co-ordinated attack.

Some of the police were handcuffed before they were shot, with an image, seen by this masthead, of their bodies lying face down in a pile of sand.

The head of the local police Alfredo Alonzo Lopez was the target, who was killed along with other police who came to his aid.

There have been 341 police killed in Mexico this year, as cartel members fight for control of the cocaine and ice trade.

Originally published as The real cost of Sydney’s cocaine addiction is paid for by the murder of Mexican policeman