Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Association of Security Companies (Adesinc) reported this Monday that the sentence of the Constitutional Court that declares article 14 numeral 2 literal F, of Law 631-16 of Possession and Possession of Firearms, which required surveillance companies to hire armed personnel over 30 years of age.
The executive director of Adesinc, Katia Salomón, explained that they had welcomed this decision of the high court, but they still had to comply with this technical procedure to exercise it.
He stressed that it is an achievement for that sector that has welcomed the appeal filed by that entity because the aforementioned article limits the growth of that productive area that supports more than 22,000 people directly and, in addition, made it impossible for young people to get jobs. with less than 30 years.
“The review of this age limitation was proposed by Adesinc without making inference to the size of the civilian population in general, because when enacting this Law it was not taken into account that many men and women depend on the private security sector who have taken this profession that contributes to the Dominican state some 82,000 hours of citizen security services each year,” he said.
The executive director of Adesinc pointed out that “it was very disconcerting and discriminatory to see thousands of citizens at a productive age, many with a family to support, and that due to provisions of that Law they could not dedicate themselves to working for our sector because they were not of legal age. for the carrying and possession of firearms.
In 2018, through the lawyer Katia Salomón, Adesinc asked the Constitutional Court to declare this age limitation requirement unconstitutional, which restricted and violated supreme values and fundamental principles such as the right to work, legal certainty and equality. reasonableness of the norm, among others, which constitute the ideological objective of the constitution.
About ADESINC
The Dominican Association of Security Companies (Adesinc), is a non-profit organization that is in charge of grouping the main protection companies, founded in January 1982 and incorporated with decree number 108-92, dated April 2, 1992.
Its current membership is made up of more than 65 formal companies in the sector, which contribute to citizen security around 82 million hours of surveillance and annual protection and pay a total of 3 billion pesos a year in payroll, at 22 thousand collaborators of the associated companies.
Adesinc members pay an estimated amount of 288 million pesos a year to the treasury, about 457 million pesos a year in social security and 30 million pesos a year in their contributions to Infotep, according to data from the latest study conducted on the sector. by the Deloitte company.
Adesinc brings together security companies in the modalities of surveillance, transportation of valuables, advice in this area, consulting and investigation, electronic security, distributors of security equipment, own security body, among others.
