Santo Domingo.-Vice President Raquel Peña, together with the Minister of the Interior and Police, Jesús Vásquez Martínez, began this Saturday the first congress on Citizen security and Community Rules.
With the congress they seek to directly involve the citizens of more than 40 neighborhoods of the capital and impact hundreds of families in the communities intervened through the Comprehensive Citizen Security Strategy “My Safe Country”.
The vice president assured that “the changes and the profound transformation that the Dominican people have demanded for years go beyond a simple wish because we have paid attention to those demands with planning, good management and hard work that we are already beginning to see the results of.” fruits”.
He stressed that the strategy of the Citizen Security Plan in the National District is based on the involvement of the community in the surveillance and protection of their neighborhoods, in permanent coordination with the police and justice authorities, who are called to serve citizens. with respect and seeking to guarantee the rights of all.
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Peña emphasized that Luis Abinader has assumed a moral and ethical commitment with all Dominican men and women to work to promote the generation of a strong and well-rooted citizen consciousness that elevates us towards the space of decency, transparency, respect for coexistence and good neighborliness.
67% violence
Minister Vásquez Martínez expressed his concern about the violence in the country, indicating that 67 percent of the cases are due to problems of citizen coexistence.
“This rapprochement with the community sectors precisely seeks to change that, modify that vision, that people can share in society, that a social pact is reached and that the rules are respected,” he said.
