"If the criminals resist giving up ... well then there will be incidents of confrontation," says Julian Leyzaola.
(CNN) -- On the job for barely three months, the new police chief of Ciudad Juarez -- the globally recognized hotspot in Mexico's drug wars -- predicts bold changes in his new border home.
Juarez will be pacified in the year ahead and public confidence will return by 2012, said Julian Leyzaola, who officially carries the title of secretary of municipal public safety.
It's the kind of comment one would expect from a man who made his reputation wrangling another border city, Tijuana, under control. But in an exclusive interview with CNN, he sat calmly with a chocolate milk in his hand.
"I understand that this will not be free. The citizens are not going to start believing in the authorities just because I arrived," he said. "We have to show the people with deeds, not rhetoric."
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