Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto submitted a bill to Congress on Monday that aims to replace the country's most corrupt municipal police forces within the next two years.

The bill would swiftly place the municipal police in the states of Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Jalisco and Michoacan under state control.

President Enrique Peña Nieto’s actions come as a direct result of the recent turmoil the country has experienced since 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' College of Ayotzinapa went missing in September.

A municipal police force in Iguala detained the students then turned them over to a criminal gang that reportedly shot, burned and disposed of the students who are still missing.

The aftermath has been intense, resulting in constant protests and a shakeup of the political scene.

The mayor of Iqula, Jose Luis Abarca, and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, were arrested in connection to the missing students.

And in the northern border state of Tamaulipas, many municipal police forces have been dissolved due to their perceived inability to counter drug cartels.

As quoted in an AP article, Alejandro Hope, an analyst who works for the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, said that, with a few exceptions, the state police forces "are deformed institutions, deeply vulnerable to corruption and intimidation."

Peña Nieto's bill, according to NBC News, points out that many of Mexico's smaller municipalities do not have local police, and that a majority of Mexico's municipal police forces have on average only 12 officers, who typically have just a middle-school education.

The bill, as quoted in an AP article, asserts that in several instances “municipal police have been corrupted or infiltrated by criminal groups," and noted that as it now stands a mere 39.2 percent of Mexicans are confident in their local police.

The proposal, which must be approved by both houses of Congress and a majority of state legislatures, would eventually allow states to absorb or re-hire some municipal officers.