Its well known among Dominicans that the police are useless! If something happens to a family member don't waste your time by going to the police, things need to be handle on your own.

Seems like another senseless killing. Condolences to friends and family.

POLICE WEAKNESS?

You bet, just weakness is a very courtesy saying..
For a lot of people, Police is just a name of scaring local people...... as to the abilities to handle criminal issues., police has no way to handle, yet, don't even want to learn ......Shame.....

This tragedy not only extremely sad and painful for her family and friends, but absolutely shameful for country and our so called public safety institutions.

From petty crime, to NARCOs getting government loans, to murders they are totally ineffective in guaranteeing the nationals or the visitor’s safety.

This is corruption developed into chaos with anarchy waiting in the wings!

It is a sad and pitiful fact, judicial enforcement authorities, the ones who have and hold the responsibility to maintain law and order, shoulder the heaviest burden to preserve the peace are precisely the ones who are the least organized, under compensated, lack the resources to practice updated criminal investigation techniques and as such perform inneffective police work. But hey.......what the heck, but we have one hell of a subway system, the best, exemplanary, Caribbean's finest. What more can you ask for?

Dominican Today... talk with la colonel Francia Fernandez, de la police nationale de République dominicaine. She is on this file.

4 suspects has already been arrested in different "conflictual events" like a horse belonging to Mme. Gaudreault been stolen in the past, or a tree been cut on the victim land. One of the arrested supects is a man who is the father in relation to an electrician who has performed work and died electrocuted at Mme. Gaudreault home last month and "is or was" detained.

In the case of the electrician who died at Mme. Gaudreault's home, she had refused to compensate the family for their lost and this could be a revenge.

Bare in mind that this man (father of the past away electrician) is not guilty until "proofs elements" are found. It would be a shame to condemn an innocent man who is grieving his son if this is only a circonstantial event..

Until we start to pay our Police a living wage, how can we expect more from them? Pay them enough AND THEN hold them accountable.

Screw that......IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE.......I say push the useless DR Police aside, the DR should let the Canadian RMP take over this murder investigation and teach the DR Police how its done.
God I hope this case is solved soon, my heart and prayers goes out to the Family......

absolutely, juanb. the ineptitude of the police is not the fault of the individuals in the force. when you pay the kind of wages that the police officers make, you are not going to have long lines of college graduates applying for the jobs. you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. its that simple. the priorities in this country are so out of joint that nothing short of a COMPLETE overhaul will make the slightest difference. so, in order for you to take your mind off the malaise, the government spinmasters promise you that they just spoke with some foreign government officials who are planning to start a factory here to cure cancer and aids, using beeswax. the factory will employ 5 million on a full time basis, and 4 million part timers.

Dread,

I hate to correct you my brother the college graduates are the ones who get paid the peanuts the others must fight for the empty shells!

A good reason to replace the old gray-hair tradionalist politicians with new young fresh minds.

We need to throw all these empty jackets out.

So sad that the lady has to die because some of our owns are wild savage animals, including our police!!

I feel so sorry for the lady's family...

My deepest condolences...it hurts to know this happened to this poor lady.

OUT THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW...

REPLACE EL PLD, PRD, and every inept political party with new if possible foreign minds, of Dominican descent, who can bring real judicial, political, and economical statbility to the country.

It's a shame we have to deal with this nonsense...

Until we start to pay our Police a living wage, how can we expect more from them? Pay them enough AND THEN hold them accountable. = Oh sure and in NYC the Police and Firefighters are still corrupt; big time!

I don't get it. Why kill a benevolent lady like this? I don't understand. The police said it was not a robbery. What else could have happened there?

It is sad indeed!! I would like to hear Canada rebuke the DR police force for such incompetence! hell rebuke the ones in charge!

Well, I am sure that in Canada or the US, the police at least answer the phone.

lots of tourists getting killed in the pop area. 3 punks need to kill one lady?
why? take her money but why did they take her life?.

what drugs can do for the dr.

mexico. ciudad juarez.
used to be a city 1,000 of american and others would flock to, not any more.
2007----- 300 murders ---- jump to 1,600 in 2008
2009 2,600 murders.
yes the numbers are correct.
the tourists business is also dead, 1,000 of dominicans depend on the tourits business to make their living.
u guys know the rest of the story dont u?

gringo u are very correct in your statement.


well, i am sure that in canada or the us, the police at least answer the phone,

they do much more then answer the phone.
they have real men not idiots riding around on bikes.
how come the so called police can find the bad guys selling drugs and then shake they down?... so just maybe they are not that stupid.

when it happens in dominican republic ,it is police weakness,,
its very weak,
dont even think about the police in united states or canada when your talking about dr police.. they are not even on the same planet, not on the same page, not in a 1,000 years even close. .

your nice to only call them weak.
dr police are much more then weak.

I don't care what any of you guys say, call them weak, call them incompetent, lazy, corrupt or what ever you want but they ride in style. The DR motorized police brigade each got a brand new set of $20,000 Harleys-Davidson bikes last year. Does not anyone remember that? Getting those bikes (and a good amount of cash kick-back) is more important then fighting crime and good police work.

juan,

right on the money!

this is too f much how can these animals do such as horible crime. have they no mercy. Only one way this could be stop. Start applying long term sentences that the perpertrators would actually served their jail time instead getting out in two years. I say 75 to life in prison.

Dominican Police is weak because of the lack of education, training, lack of ethics, organization, supervision, and poor salary. If they fix that im sure we will start to see some change. This is a very sad case. When youre in the streets of the DR you are on your own when it comes down to law enforcement.
I have herd that one can pay to become a police officer in DR and that no education is needed. I herd of stories from the viejos in the corner from my house that there were cops there that did not even know how to read, and that other people found out because they caught him holding the newspaper downwards!! How sad.

Bachatu, I also heard that from my grandparents. Illiterate cops was quite normal during the Trujillo era. Trujillo himself barely had an elementary school education. But in spite of the tyranny, people were safe and secure from street crime, although not safe from political persecution if you opposed the regime. Nevertheless, back then people could sleep overnight with doors unlocked and wide open. Try to do that today and see what can happen. And please some of you guys don't take my comment, twist it as if I am a Trujillo sympathizer. To the contrary, I just hope we don't have or need to resort toward extreme measures for the return of peace and harmony in our country.

However, a lot of that has changed since then, most Dominican cops can read and write, yet lack education or are basic skills deficient. But in spite of improved literacy, we have no safety and security. But regardless of that, the police force needs to be desperately reformed or rather transformed no matter what

Nobody is safe in the Dominican Republic NOBODY!

Dominguez worked as Fernandez's elevator operator in the National Palace, but also made a living by tilling the land to support their two children.

Not even a cop working for his majesty LIE-onel Fernandez in the National Palace is safe from the violence that the country is plagued with. Even a guy who works at the service of the president must moonlight as a framer to feed his family because his salary as a First Lieutenant is not enough to feed his family.

Like I said before The Dominican Republic under Fernandez’s has become Chaos with Anarchy waiting in the wings!

¿Y No Era Pa’Lante Que Íbamos?

Lieutenant Domínguez RIP and my condolences to your family!

http://www.noticiassin.com/www/?g....y_article&aid=14720&tid=4

Aww how could someone stab a canadian there so nice! Well most of them. All of my friends in Canada are. What is the world becoming smh jesus is coming soon.

Guillermone, wanna bet how long those Harleys will last? after all this is not the 1st time that cops got new harleys, remember barrio seguro?

Remember that tourism is the grease that lubricates the economy of the DR.
Be carefuld when you capitalize on an isolated incident you do not end scaring away prospective tourists.
We are living a violent wold and we have predators raoming around us. They must kill in order to eat.
Like in any developed country whether it is Canada or United States one should take precautions to reduce the risk of being targeted by criminals.
Sometimes Canadians are targeted by their own expatriate countrymen living in the DR who commit crimes in order to survive.

Some posters here of Dominican origin have a bizarre panchant to vilify their country, their countrymen , the Dominican police and the Dominican government

This wonderful kind lady was a friend of mine. she helped many people. This was a cruel and senseless murder fuelled by drugs. She had very little money and that probably made them mad.
The Police here are good!!!! not all, some do ask for money, because of the disgraceful wages they are paid.
They will not inform the press what is going on in the investigation for a very good reason.
They do not need the RMP to help. The RMP commended the Dominican Police publicly when they were investigating the "disappearance" of D'arcy, the Canadian who went "missing". I and the Dominican Police knew this was a farce and D'arcy was not kidnapped. He lied because of money he owed. So do not be so ready to judge when you do not know the facts.

The majority of the Harley's went missing before put into service. Dios Mio!

well lopez and company, if the police is all that bad,maybe next time you get mugged call a bachata singer