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SANTO DOMINGO. - National Police chief Bernardo Santana ordered all its agents who are at the service of individuals or private companies to return to the police work or otherwise will be fired.

The Police chief met this Friday with the senior staff, regional commanders and other officers, to orient them on the adopted policies recently by president Leonel Fernandez, to expand the government’s citizen security programs.

Santana gave orders for all agents to report to their superiors, a measure aimed at allowing Police can guarantee peace and security for the population.

"I want to reiterate this warning, all agents who are exerting non-police work must return to their jobs or otherwise as of next week they will be fired. We have the mechanisms to detect it." he said.

In the next hours the Police Council, presided by Minister of Interior and Police, and Justice Minister and the Chief of Police will meet to discuss to mechanisms and strategies to cleanup the police force, in order to keep agents who have been fired for misconduct from returning.

It has been a custom that many Dominican Police agents abandon their duties to work privately, despite continuing to be paid by the Government

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5 comment(s)
Written by: Ruben, 4 Aug 2006 12:07 PM
From: Bonao, RD
You either work for the government or you don't. These police officers should not have the luxury of ripping our tax dollars. I commend the government for its initiative to better track their police officers. Although it surprises me that top officials in the police department don't even know where and what their police officers are doing; and we call this a police force?
Written by: jeffrey, 4 Aug 2006 4:46 PM
From: New York
nothing like admittiing u have no control over ur own police force. Who ever heard of superior officers not knowing where their agents are?
Written by: john, 4 Aug 2006 10:36 PM
From: calif. us
Its been 40 yrs. since I was a 82 nd. mp patrolling the streets of DR and trying to work with the national police.
What a shame that it sounds like things there have not really changed.
Written by: Juan Pistoff, 6 Aug 2006 12:05 PM
From: Santo Domingo
It must be easy to run a newspaper here. All you have to do is keep recycling old stories because nothing changes. For example, wasn't this "NEWS" last year and did we not see a change in police leadership as a result? Heads need to roll everywhere. Pronto! In the meantime, put this story back in the hopper and reprint it in a few months. Some name might change here and there but it will be the same story. I'm sorry I have to stop writing, I need to go puke. Poor country. Poor people.
Written by: joshtati14, 19 Jan 2009 11:46 AM
From: United States, South Plainfield, New Jersey
Juan Pistoff ( Good Name====Pistoff)

I agreed with you. This is old news. I don’t care who’s in charge of the National Police or any government organizations in the DR, no one is going to change the why senior officials’ do business in DR. Because they only care about themselves and the kick back money, they get for looking the other way. The only one that can end this practices is the President, by selecting staffs that have the capacity and high moral standers to perform the task and most importance of all, to care for its citizens and the country. However, these wells never happen with this president or future one.
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