SANTO DOMINGO.- The Armed Forces and the National Police already have a modern technological platform through which crime can be analytically monitored on a national scale, debugging detainees and complaints made in real time.
Through the Comprehensive Management, Command and Control System (Sidcom), presented yesterday at a ceremony headed by President Luis Abinader at the C5i Monitoring Center of the Ministry of Defense, all complaints, criminal acts and police actions are mapped and based on there it generates a criminal prospective that will serve to determine preventive patrolling.
Speaking, the president explained that said platform, which he described as transcendental, will allow a real-time diagnosis of citizen security by demarcation, providing specific information for the deployment of units and personnel.
“Unfortunately, the Police were at the lowest level in terms of technology and we are starting to change that,” explained the government official.
He added that the platform is a combination of programs that have worked in other countries, adapted to the Dominican situation.
The head of state added that for the implementation of the software, the staff was subjected to an education process, since the process without reliable statistics cannot provide the solutions that are required to reduce crime.
He announced that for the implementation of Sidcom, the Police have been using about 500 smartphones for a week.
Platform
He specified that in addition to the implementation of the platform and technological tools, the Police will integrate more agents, for which they will train another 3,000 officers for this year.
President Abinader announced that through an application for mobile devices, citizens will be able to access the platform to file complaints.
He indicated that 95 police detachments are under construction, which have a spatial redesign in accordance with the guidelines of the reform, while others will be adapted to guarantee connection to the monitoring center.
All the institutions and organizations integrated in the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cybersecurity and Intelligence Center of the Armed Forces, including the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, will have access to Sidcom statistics.
On his side, the northwest regional director of the Police and creator of the software, General Juan Gerónimo Brown Pérez, when demonstrating how the program works, explained that through the system, agents will be able to purge a citizen in real time using nicknames. , physical characteristics or tattoos and, depending on the color of the alert displayed by the application, the level of danger of the individual will be determined.
He explained that when the photo of the citizen is shown in red, it means that he has an arrest warrant and must be arrested at the scene, while in yellow it means that he has a criminal record and green that he does not have records in the database of the police. Policeman.
In the same way, it will also be possible to debug any vehicle using only its license plate number.
Called
Meanwhile, José Pepe Vila del Castillo, Executive Commissioner for Police Reform, called on citizens to respect and abide by the guidelines of the authorities and the laws, warning that if they do not do so, the reform that this institution is undergoing will be “lame.” .
He stressed that they already have the necessary computers to install a software control center command at Police headquarters.
He stressed that they already have the necessary computers to install a software control center command at the National Police headquarters.
While the director of the C5i, Major General Luis Rafael Lee Ballester, explained that video surveillance analytics will be used at the Sidcom for predictive and preventive intelligence of different types of crimes, using the cameras of the National System for Attention to Emergencies and Security 9-1 -1.
“Right now we are in the process of an analysis to prevent and identify crimes committed on motorcycles. The process has already been awarded and this tool will be integrated into the Command and Control System” (referring to SIPCOM), Vice Admiral Lee Ballester specified.
Agreements
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For the operation of Sidcom on the mobile phones of Police officers in preventive tasks, special agreements will be made with telephone companies to guarantee 4 and 5G technology at the time of debugging.
statistics
970 thousand chips.
Cases and complaints are handled through the Comprehensive Management, Command and Control System.
Violence and crime decrease
Prevention. The Commissioner for Police Reform, José Vila Del Castillo, reported that after the implementation of mixed patrolling between police and military, homicides due to crime decreased by 38%, homicides due to social conflict by 21%, while those injured by firearms in the hands of criminals fell by 32%.
He added that the joint operation of the National Police and the Armed Forces integrates some 4,343 agents, using more than 700 vehicles.
In the operations, 168,664 grams of different drugs have been seized and more than 50 firearms have been seized, according to statistics from the National Drug Control Directorate.
