President Luis Abinader estimated yesterday that the country needs at least 15,000 well-trained and well-paid police officers to integrate them into crime prevention tasks.
Abinader spoke at the head of a meeting at the National Palace with media executives alongside the Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Carlos Diaz Morfa, the Director of the National Police, Major General Edward Sanchez Gonzalez; the Minister of the Presidency, Lisandro Macarrulla and other officials.
Abinader argued that prevention is paramount, so the first 5,000 new police officers will now be incorporated, 2,000 will be integrated this year and the remaining 3,000 new officers by 2022.
While the director of the Police, Sánchez González, reported that 30 vans will also be integrated immediately into the patrol, and Macarrulla advanced that the General Directorate of Traffic and Land Transport Security (Digesett) will be equipped with another 250 motorcycles.
Sánchez González stated that the support of all civil society actors is needed to continue fighting the growing “criminal wave” that has affected the country in recent weeks.
“We have been strengthening prevention and you have seen the efforts that President Abinader has been making, with teams, with income, the issue has been a constant but we need the empowerment of actors in society to support the will of ‘President Abinader in these actions,’ explained the director of the body of order.
Sánchez González stated that since the beginning of his administration they have focused on the aspect of the prevention of criminal acts and stressed that the head of state has approved the reintegration of more than 3,000 agents in the tasks of patrol, of which there are already 2,000 on the streets while the others will be integrated over the course of these four months.
Regarding the details of the meeting, Sánchez González explained that they will be made known through the communications address of the National Palace
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In recent weeks in the Gran Santo Domingo, Santiago and other areas of the country a wave of crimes, robberies and assaults has been unleashed, which has deserved the reaction of important economic, political, religious and civil society sectors, the who demand from the authorities an immediate response to the situation. He also created an adverse reaction to the majority of the population in a statement released by the Police last Monday, which stated that the monthly average of burglary crimes has fallen by 24 percent nationwide, from 7,853 during 2019 , last year before the pandemic, to 5 thousand 993 in the first eight months of this year.
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The figures of the National Police
Press release.
According to a statement from the Police, the crimes classified as burglary are robberies, kidnappings, thefts and break-ins to break into houses and buildings and steal valuables with care and caution.
Most cases.
Of these in 2019 were recorded 94,239, the vast majority in the National District (more than 20 thousand) and the province of Santo Domingo (more than 43 thousand).
The results.
In the first 8 months of the year, the Police registered 37,526 cases, of which 22,188 (59%) were resolved and 15,831 people were brought to justice. In the first 4 months the average case closure exceeds 53%, and in the other four it has exceeded 60%.