The president of the Permanent Commission of the Interior and Police of the Chamber of Deputies, Carlos Sánchez, considered this morning the decision of the director of the Police, Major General Eduardo Alberto Then, not to attend the meeting he had yesterday with legislators, but admitted that it is unlikely that he will be able to pass an interpellation motion against him in the body.
While the spokesman for the block of deputies of the People’s Force (FP), Rubén Maldonado, assured that “a higher order” prevented the police director from going to the Lower House yesterday to explain the details of the murders of several young people in barracks police.
On his side, Senator Iván Lorenzo, spokesman for the senators of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), favored that General Then be questioned because that would force him to go before the legislators to give explanations about the deaths and mistreatment of young people in police headquarters.
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Sánchez explained that a proposal to question the police director would go to the Interior and Police Commission, where of the 15 members, eight are deputies from the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), five from the PLD, one from the FP and the rest is from the Partido Revolucionario Moderno. Civic Renovator.
He stressed that another element that would make Then’s interpellation difficult is that the PRM has 94 deputies and with allies it reaches 102 of the 190 “and the motion would be approved with half plus one, that is, the opposition would have no way of achieving that the high official be questioned in the Chamber of Deputies”.
He explained that the director of the Police had been invited since April 25 to socialize the issue of the increase in citizen insecurity and what concerns police reform. He added that the death of young David de los Santos at the police station in the Naco expansion had not yet occurred.
He argued that it was the police director who should have attended the meeting and explained to said commission the situation of citizen security in the country.
“It was the Minister of the Interior and Police, Jesús Vásquez Martínez, and Commissioner José Pepe Vila, we wanted him to be the director because he is the operational part of the Police, who manages the day-to-day with the citizens, but he did not go”, Held.
Ruben Maldonado
Maldonado maintained that the director of the Police was given an order not to attend the meeting he had planned with the deputies.
“He received a clear order not to participate in that call that democracy and the Constitution require, which is that the official appear before the National Congress when they are sued to inquire about some aspects of their work, their responsibilities in public affairs,” he claimed.
Ivan Lawrence
On his side, Lorenzo favored the questioning of Then, who said that the high official has been the great absentee from the scenarios, in the midst of the security crisis that affects the Dominican Republic.
He described as a mockery the decision of the police director not to attend the meeting that he had already arranged with the Interior and Police Commission of the Chamber of Deputies to discuss citizen insecurity.
