Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Government, through the National Police, deepens the investigations to verify information that emerged on Wednesday from Haiti, which says that there is participation of Dominicans in the criminal gangs that operate in the neighboring nation, according to a publication by the Haitian National Police on Facebook of the interrogation of an alleged Dominican belonging to one of those armed gangs.
This was reported this Thursday by the Minister of the Interior and Police, Jesús Vásquez Martínez, in statements to the press during a visit to the province of Dajabón, where he traveled to learn about the progress of the work on the border wall being built by the Government.
Vásquez Martínez assured that the Dominican Government adopts all the rigorous measures to prevent criminals from entering the national territory.
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“What you can be sure of is that the government of President Luis Abinader is not going to allow members of these criminal gangs to pass from this side, whether they are Haitians, Dominicans or any other nationality,” he said.
He added that the National Police investigates each of the cases in which Haitians participate to determine the level of involvement with organized crime or with one of the gangs that operate in the neighboring nation.
He stressed that this is a commitment that the Government has assumed as a country and that from the National Migration Council (CNM) it is given due follow-up to apply the migration policy that best suits the interest of the country.
He announced that President Abinader ordered the purchase of 300 more vans, in addition to new motorcycles, for the National Police and a significant amount of these units will be sent to reinforce surveillance in the border area.
Likewise, the minister highlighted that the president has already authorized the entry of three thousand new agents to the National Police, so that in the next few days the selection process will begin for their entry to training in the institution’s training centers.
“With this we increasingly hope to respond to citizen security issues in the Dominican Republic,” he said.
During a supervision tour of the work, Vásquez Martínez was received by the governor of Dajabón, Rosalba Milagros Peña; Colonel Juan Adames Almonte, Operations Coordinator of the Specialized Border Security Corps (Cesfront) and Lieutenant Colonel Santo Lora Báez, Commander of the National Police, among other officials.
The wall
The wall that stands on the Haitian-Dominican border is 2.50 meters high in concrete and in cyclonic mesh it is about 6 feet, with a thickness of 20 centimeters, and to date 700 linear meters have been built, according to engineer Marcos Abad. who works on the project.
