Senior military and police officers affirmed this Friday that all the security organisms of Dominican Republic are prepared to face any threat of Haiti harm the country.
The director of the Analysis Center of the Ministry of Interior and PoliceDaniel Pou, assured that any threat is being monitored and will be responded to with the intensity that it implies.
“We do not care where the threat comes from, the threats are being monitored, any threat has the same category and the same preventive measure will be responded to and implemented with the intensity that the threat implies,” Poo said.
He added that “Haiti is a threat from different spheres that weighs on Dominican Republic“.
Given this situation, Vice Admiral Lee Ballester, director of the Center for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cybersecurity and Intelligence (C5i), maintained that the Armed forces and the Army will be at the forefront of any attack that occurs in the national territory.
vice admiral calls on the Dominican population to be calm since they are working tirelessly to guarantee any situation that may arise and that may affect the security and defense of the country.
These words were offered during the detailed report on the first 17 days of the joint interventions of the authorities in the different popular sectors of the country.
The Dominican Government stated this Friday that Haiti It does not have the technology or reliable records to obtain truthful information about the identity of the members of the different criminal gangs that prevail in its territory, unlike the Dominican Republicwhich does have a biometric registration system and other technologies that allow the main leaders of the gangs operating in the neighboring country to be identified.
These statements come after the statement released by the Police of Haiti assuring that in its territory there is a legion of Dominicans in gangs. The Haitian authorities reached this conclusion after having interrogated a Dominican member of the “Ti Lapli” gang who had previously operated with a gang of a certain “Ti Makak”, identified as Molaï Ortiz Mieses.
According to the police statement Haiti, Ortiz Mieses was a key member of one of the Haitian gangs operating in that country and is currently under the control of the Haitian authorities. The man revealed that “legions of Dominicans are an integral part of the armed gangs that currently operate in Haiti“.