Santo Domingo, RD.
The director of the National Police (PN), Edward Sánchez González, has indicated that all the protocols of action that teach the members of this institution were violated in the murder of the couple Elizabeth Muñoz and Joel Díaz, Tuesday last week at Villa Altagracia.
He assured that the acting police officers did not debug the vehicle in which the couple was engaged, they were not invited to lower the windows, identify themselves, among other steps to follow.
“All protocols of action were violated, no excuses is a fact that should never have happened, the lives of members were never endangered,” he said in an interview with the report, with the journalist Alicia Ortega.
Sanchez expressed that the order of the agents of the National Police was to stop a white vehicle that had committed some criminal acts in Bonao and for that reason warning was given and a guard was installed. He claimed the complaint was a stolen Pasola.
“When we started the investigations we realized that an excess had been committed, the departure of the police was not in danger, the lives of individuals were not in danger, there was no aggression on the patrol, in this case in the units that were responding to a warning of thefts that had occurred.A white vehicle was being pursued.The data they initially collected, because there were people who had gone there to report to the Bonao staff that a vehicle white with various elements had stripped him of a Pasola, “he said.
Sánchez González, has indicated that the case is still open, where a parallel investigation is being carried out to apply a disciplinary sentence.
The director of the National Police reported that the witnesses who have launched the investigation will be made public “promptly” and that all internal responsibility of “superiors and members who acted will be clarified”.
Elizabeth Muñoz and Joel Díaz were killed last Tuesday by members of the National Police while traveling in their car, a white Kia, after returning from a Christian vigil.
Due to this death, the police suspended César Martínez Lora, Victorino Reis Navarro, Domingo Perdomo Reis, Norkys Rodríguez Jiménez and Ángel de Sants, Anthony Castro Pérez and Juan Manuel Ogando Solís.
Later Luis Abinader asked the Minister of Interior and Police Jesus “Chu” Vásquez the cancellation of those involved in the incident.