Santo Domingo.-The spokesman for the block of deputies of the Fuerza del Pueblo (FP), Rafael Castillo, described on Saturday as a betrayal of the country the fact that officers of the National Police sell in Haiti, a country hostile to the Dominican Republic , more than 900 thousand projectiles.
“The simple fact that it is the same police officers who are selling projectiles in Haiti, which is a country that is hostile to ours, constitutes a betrayal for us,” he said. He said that the projectiles stolen from the Police warehouses had They must necessarily be taken out in large vehicles, “not in pockets.”
“How is it that then there is only a small group of prisoners and everyone around them who saw the projectiles being taken out is still not in prison,” Castillo questioned.
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He added that what happened is the best example that police reform, in which billions of pesos have been invested, does not work.
Castillo stated that more than RD$1,000 million have already been invested in the new uniforms that will be used alone: He added that the scandal with the theft of ammunition by the police officers themselves occurs even though President Luis Abinader visits the institution every Monday as a form of keep an eye on her
“It is highly worrying that three and a half years after starting a re[1]police form where thousands and billions of pesos of the Dominican people have been spent trying to carry out a police reform that has not borne fruit,” he noted.
“We have seen with concern that the President of the Republic, going to the National Police Palace every Monday to report, loses a million projectiles in the face of the President himself, more than 900 thousand projectiles,” he said.
He added that “we recently saw that the Police invested more than one billion pesos in uniforms alone, hotels have been rented for more than 100 million pesos in the Espaillat province to train police officers and it continues to be rotten and that is extremely worrying.”
He highlighted that for more than three years the population has given support to the police reform, but this process is not moving forward, because according to what he states, the “cancer” is within.
“Every day we see police violating the rights of citizens, beating them, invading schools without an order as we could see yesterday, as we could see yesterday the police invading, entering a place without an order, and it is extremely worrying that we continue to spend money in a barrel without funds to modify, then we don’t see solutions,” he said.
Criticizes the JCE
On the other hand, he criticized the decision of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) to refuse to call new elections in La Vega to elect a new mayor and vice mayor in that district.
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Castillo maintained that the electoral body turns a “blind eye” to the maneuvers that the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) has carried out for several weeks to place one of its leaders as mayor in the aforementioned city and now declares itself incompetent. to call for new extraordinary elections in the area.
He considered that on the same day that Vice Mayor Amparo Custodio decided not to assume the mayor’s office, after the appointment of trustee Kelvin Cruz as Minister of Sports, “the Board should have initiated an investigation together with the Public Ministry because the most serious crime that could have happened is not that she resigned, the crime was to investigate why she had resigned, everyone said that it was due to pressure from the PRM, so if it is due to pressure from a party, the Public Ministry should have carried out an investigation through the Board to judge those who “They had pressured her because that is punishable by law.”
“Now the official councilors of that city council now decide to revoke the resignation, when that is already illegal, you already accepted that resignation, and you cannot then activate that mayor again for three months because that resignation has already become effective. And the second, even more serious action is that this council of aldermen is now abrogating the right of the citizen, of the sovereign, to appoint a vice mayor by resolution when these officials are directly elected by the people,” he stated.
