The director of public security in Gomez Palacio and his counterpart in the city of Lerdo were also detained.
Soldiers cordoned off the police stations of the two cities in simultaneous raids.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has made the fight against corruption one of his government's priorities.
Buses took those detained to the state capital for interrogation.
The military has been left in charge of security in the two cities, while the police officers continue to be investigated.
Corruption within Mexico's police force, especially the municipal police, is rife, with officers often offered money or threatened by the country's powerful drug gangs to work for them and tip them off about upcoming raids.
Voice of Russia, BBC
Source: http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_01_19/Mexico-police-arrested-in-organised-crime-raid/
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