Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - On Wednesday, April 10, 2013, local community leaders from the Viejo Vallarta Association and most of the downtown expat associations met with both the city's syndicate bosses and leaders from all five Municipal Authority departments to discuss certain issues regarding Public Safety, and how to better promote the "Taxi Safe" program.

The Taxi Safe Program was presented by Don Pickens, who explained it to be a fairly new website that has been up and running since last year. TaxiSafePV.com was specifically designed by Sid Goodman to help local expats or visitors report any type of injustice they witness or experience during their stay here in Puerto Vallarta. To date, the website has been a success, with several reports having already been translated and sent to the local authorities.

This meeting was a true stepping stone for the community since key officials were presented for the purpose of making Taxi Safe a more efficient program. Both the Syndicate Leaders and the Public Officials, including the city's new Director of Public Safety, Colonel Silvestre Chavez Garcia, made special commitments to ensure new measures would be put into place to counter some of the incidents that have occurred over the last few months.

According to the Colonel, some of the new measures that will be put into effect starting next month will be to give aptitude tests to all officers who wear the uniform and serve under his direct command. Moreover, the Colonel said that severe sanctions will be imposed upon any officer caught violating the code of conduct or, more specifically, violating their willingness to serve or their sworn duty to protect the people's rights, including those of the local expats and visitors who don't speak the language.

Furthermore, the syndicate leaders have agreed to allow certain Taxi Safe advertising materials to be placed inside taxi cabs, as well as a printed rate sheet for fares departing from the downtown El Centro area to most of the main tourist points in the city.

Both the Syndicate Leaders and the Local Authority Leaders were pleased with the meeting and look forward to working together with all of the staff members of Taxi Safe.