Corrupted municipal and state police officers | Checkpoint

February 3rd, 2024 by lamasstephany

The pin is a bit off but there were checking on the way west/north, not going east/south. I didn’t see the police stopping a bunch of ppl, just one car. But there were many cops. On a Saturday noon.

November 23rd, 2023 by thedefender300tdi.de

Pulled us over and asked for driver license. We showed them copy but he wanted to see the original and we tried to hold it in our hands, but he took it and said „relax“. Asked where we’re coming/going and where we are from. They let their dog searching our car. Then they give us an „ok“. All of them spoke English and were friendly.

July 30th, 2023 by 3weltreisen.de

1km before, nothing happens, passed without contoll

March 1st, 2023 by adventuresofbrucethevan

After reading the comments, we decided to film about 2-3 km prior. We got waved to pull over after he asked if we were travelers. They definitely saw that I was filming. Asked us a few questions then checked the inside of our van. One of the police officers was super friendly and chatted away with my partner. He let us go and told us that he was on our side and gave us a fist bump. Haha ya ok...

December 26th, 2022 by souldope_overlanding

They pulled us out (landcruiser) and ask the normal questions
Nothing special
It’s 11:00 26.12.2022

December 14th, 2022 by yannic.loritz

Police was there but they just watched in their phones and after some nice girls, while smoking a cigarette.. Didnt stopped anybody!

December 11th, 2022 by g.garreau

Arrêt de la police. On nous a demandé d’où nous venions, où nous alliions et ce que nous transportions (réponse : nos 3 enfants dans notre VR). Ils ont demandé à voir les papiers et l’intérieur mais finalement ne sont pas rentrés (on a dit que le bébé dormait).

November 23rd, 2022 by Dave

Checkpoint was a little further down the road than the pin in iOverlander. 1145am, heading to Campeche - officer on the road but we were able to drive through without being asked to stop

November 10th, 2022 by vlanger1

2:00 pm - Thursday Only Military Police present. Both sides. Had a few trucks pulled out, but clearly not after tourists

July 4th, 2022 by tiempolibrehoy

Nos detuvieron y pidieron aorillarnos para despues pedir nuestros papeles... Los oficiales como en cualquier parte de México solicitaron una "Mordida" pero inmediatamente nos respondió diciendo que mejor luego por qué había cámarad

June 16th, 2022 by travel.paw

16. June 2022, Thursday, 9:10 am
Cones on both side, but Police just stayed on the side towards Campeche.

We got pulled over. We were smiling and greeted him. He asked us where we are heading. We said to. Campeche. He let us go.

May 3rd, 2022 by Genevieve

Had us pull to side asked where we were going and pretty much just waved us through. Didn’t want to deal with non Spanish speaking gringos. Was late at night on a Tuesday headed towards Mérida

March 16th, 2022 by makoventuretravel.com

A bit of a line here but they only seemed to be stopping truckers.

February 8th, 2022 by travelingtuttles.com

We did not get flagged down or stopped. Our rig blends in pretty well as a normal truck though. We did not slow down much and just kept going and didn’t wait to see if they would flag us. (We were driving from Campeche towards Mérida)

February 3rd, 2022 by palms.and.pinetrees

Just stopped us to asked where we want to go. Didn’t asked for passport or anything or searched the car.

October 28th, 2021 by nessav98

No problems here. They did pull us for an inspection, but other than checking our licenses and opening a few cupboards nothing happened. We weren't carrying any cash and our rig doesn't look fancy so that probably helped.

October 15th, 2021 by baerbel.travels

passed by, nobody there to check. no problem.

April 4th, 2021 by elmoost

Just passed this checkpoint, fortunately without any problems. The only question asked was where we were from, and when we answered "Holanda" the guy just wished us a good day!

October 23rd, 2020 by pelo.retrovisor

Got stopped here. They were set down not paying any attention to the cars passing by, then one of them saw us (gringo car) and jumped out and rushed to the cones to waive us down.
Asked where we coming and going and asked for documents. He said we were over the speed limits on the bumps pre-police stop (which he said it is 10km/h) but we were just glued to the car in front of us and same speed as them. My wife was also not wearing seatbelt because she was stepping out of the vehicle to show him the trunk (as they always ask) and he pointed that. After giving us a little speech and saying in Mexico he needs to hold the drivers license for the fine and etc, he just told us he wouldn't keep us pinned and let us go. So yeah, beware here, they will just make something up.

March 10th, 2020 by Dos Pinguinos

Nothing there today! :-) Enjoy the right, the road is amazing!

March 8th, 2020 by mattstone75

just waiving everyone through. smiled & waived

February 28th, 2020 by mischling

Stopped us heading towards Campeche. No any other car was stopped. Police man was friendly shook both our hands and asked: where are you comming from? where are you heading too? what is your origin? Our answers all in Spanish and he let us off.

February 20th, 2020 by magic.of.travel

We got pulled over by these police. Immediately started recording and they asked for my licence. At the time we had 2 German hitchhikers in the van and he really was asking them a lot of questions. Took their passports FFMs etc. Eventually after a lot of talking with my co-pilot (who is from Chile and speaks Spanish) we where free to go.
In the end he said he could have fined us for picking up hitchhikers, so if you do that be sure to establish a story about how you know them, as it is illegal.
To be honest I think having 2 cameras recording everything them really did help us too.

February 13th, 2020 by francisbrisebois

waved us down, spoke in spanish, asked if we spoke spanish, we said no with a smile, let us go...

January 19th, 2020 by whaleontrail.ch

They just waved us trough! puuhh! Lucky us! (needed more than 40 signs)

December 31st, 2019 by NaturAliens

just passed there going towards Merida, they were controlling people on the other side only (towards Campeche)..

December 24th, 2019 by yukonjack1898

Weird situation?!We passed by at 11:30 and the two not very friendly looking Estatal Police Officers waved us to stop at the right side but just a few seconds later they gave the sign to drive on while a Federal Police Officer 25 m away starts to walk to our car and stopping us again- he was very serious but friendly and ask where we from ..where does it goes and wants to see the DL and ID- i gave him just the duplicates! but also the International DL. He checked the papers, gave me the DL and ID and went in front of our car and took an selfie from him,the International DL and our car..we don't know why?? He said it's good to see we're using our seatbelts and asked about our Pickup if's a diesel?? Yes..it's a Diesel engine..??.. it seems he likes Diesel!After these 4-5 Minutes we're ready to hit the road again..with many questions in our mind...Mexican Police it's always good for a confusing situation..😄😂

December 19th, 2019 by rolling_tucker

We passed through and no police going towards Merida, just going the opposite direction.
The actual check point is a bit before than these coordinates. It is signaled that there is a Police check and lanes become from 2 to 1.

November 30th, 2019 by manuelandergassen

Got pulled over because apparently some camera down the street caught us not yielding to pedestrians (?).
The new scheme seems to be telling people that if you pay the fine at the police station you get your license revoked for 3 days and cannot drive. However if you pay them there and now (aka bribe) you can go on your way.
We insisted on paying at the police station and after a long discussion he sent us on our way with no payment etc required.
Dont pay the bribe guys, insist on paying the fine at the police station! Worst case scenario you actually have to pay a fine that is most likely way lower than what they want as a bribe anyway.

November 28th, 2019 by hellosway.co

Got pulled over for not respecting the yellow lines back in town? Not sure how they would see that, or why they thought is was true, as we drive very slowly. Had a long back and forth using the officer’s translator, we continued to act confused (because we were!) and ultimately he let us go with no problems. Was calm and respectful despite trying to rip us off.

November 18th, 2019 by emm.norman

We were pulled over here because they thought we weren’t wearing seatbelts as our old van only has a lap strap and no chest strap. Upon seeing this the officer said I had not been wearing my belt (which I had) and said we were to receive an infraction. After arguing with him for a few minutes he called over his supervisor. He asked where we were headed and what we were doing, whether I was in fact wearing my seatbelt, and finally asked to see my license. He looked at them and said goodbye - you should go to Cancun.

November 9th, 2019 by caroline173

Saturday, 2:30pm- nobody was there. Probably they had lunch.

November 8th, 2019 by dutch.malcolms

Stopped a little before the posted coordinates, heading from Campache to Celestun. Immediately started filming (I hate doing this, but it works) tried to tell us the dog in the passenger lap is illegal, then noticed we were filming. Told us "sale!" and we we on our way...

November 5th, 2019 by adamriklin

We drove throw with no issue.
I drove behind a big track and hide :)

June 19th, 2019 by Miguel Cruise

We got pulled over on the pretext we didn't have the front licence plate. After explaining it's a US-registered car, they started talking about speeding, until they noticed I was smoking, which is supposedly prohibited in Campeche. The standard spiel of having to surrender my driving licence for a day until the fine ($3600) is paid back in Campeche followed, but we can pay $2500 on the spot and save ourselves the trouble. We hid most of our cash when the copper walked away for a moment. We told him we only had around $800, which he took and let us go. Having a Mexican friend travelling with me didn't seem to change anything. It was clearly a shakedown and I'm sure they would find some other excuse if I wasn't smoking.

May 23rd, 2019 by rocketodiaries

Coming from Merida to Campeche we didn't see anybody.

February 18th, 2019 by jille86

I think either they've moved a bit or these coordinates are slightly off as the checkpoint was about 1km down the road (if you're heading towards Campeche).
Eithet way, they waved us thru with a smile no prob.

January 25th, 2019 by contact

The police stopped us and they said we were 40km/h over the regular speed.
We asked for a proof, he said if you pay now you can go otherwise you have to come with me at Campeche to see the video/photo, wait 3h and pay and you will be free. We said ok no problem we can come back to Campeche to check what you are saying. He thought for 10s and he said “ok I let you go because you are tourists, be careful with the signs”. Everything was in Spanish and we never asked how much they wanted us to pay etc. And we acted very confident and never show that he could “win” because we knew we didn’t do anything wrong.

January 16th, 2019 by Oh the places we'll go

No problems. Very nice police and helped us pronounce name in Mayan for different cenotes we were visiting.

December 23rd, 2018 by barebandits.com

Went through Dec 23rd and no one on the north bound side checking cars, but did see them going through someone’s car southbound.

December 11th, 2018 by remi.gwen

Dans le sens Campeche vers Merida nous n'avons rien vu. Le 11/12/2018 vers 11h30.

December 10th, 2018 by mail

We just passed the police checkpoint without getting stopped. It seemed like they mostly stopped lorries. We passed around 11am.

November 8th, 2018 by TheBethovan

I went through this point at 7:30 expecting being lucky and I was. You need to stop there and at my moment they were distractive. There one was police that realice I was passing at the end and he want to stop me but i look to another point and go on. It is better to avoid this point

October 31st, 2018 by foxo

No issues when we drove through (8:30am).

September 20th, 2018 by zweiplusbus.com

We were stopped as well and they ripped us off because they told us that only the importer can drive and since I was the driving (“only the girlfriend”)they told us we have to go back to Campeche to pay 1800$ next day or we can leave the money with him.. stupid enough we gave him 1100$ because it says it on the backside of the tip and we were afraid he wouldn’t let us through at all.

August 31st, 2018 by dongyuan_04

We drove a SUV and were pulled over here. Policeman looks friendly but showed us a picture with a sign of 40km/h which I was really confused because we only saw 60km/h signs. He accused that we speeded there and asked to fine us or take our driver’s license for 3 days. Then they say we can go back to Campeche to pay 2400 pesos or we can pay to them directly for 1200 pesos. We insisted that we followed other cars but they did not stop other cars. Then they just let us go.

July 6th, 2018 by lil_dotz07

No stop for us. They appeared to be federal police, which we haven't had an issue with. We drove past at 07:30 going 10km below the 60km speed limit just in case lol.

April 27th, 2018 by saracrook8

We were stopped in our RV. Broken Spanish about our casa, ninos and Canada then he pulled out his phone and took a selfie with our license plate and on we went.

March 27th, 2018 by instagram.com/elantitour

We saw this pin on iOverlander beforehand so we were super careful to go past slowly - but they stopped us anyway.
Clearly they thought we were Canadian (we have Canadian plates) since they greeted us in English right away.
We quickly started speaking Spanish and told them we were Argentinian. My partner had to show them his driving license but we quickly diverted the conversation to the good old football teams, the World Cup, Messi etc
They were big football fans so they let us go - football conversations always work like a charm! XD

March 17th, 2018 by WanderfulLivin.com

we had no issues at this checkpoint. Just warned us about an accident ahead and to us the left lane and drive slow

January 9th, 2018 by ceasarontheroad-instagram

They stopped us to tell us that we didn’t respect the speed limit (but we were...) asked for 2500p or we should go to the station and they’ll take our driving licence for 3 days (after that we should came back at Campeche to get it back). We said that we were young travellers and don’t have any money. Ended with 40usd ... it was clearly only for tourists, ‘cause they stopped 2 only cars and it was always people like us ...