SANTO DOMINGO.- President Luis Abinader today led the presentation of the Comprehensive Management, Command and Control System (sidmco), an analytical technological platform through which the Armed Forces and the National Police will be able to monitor crime at the national level.
During the presentation, held at the C5i Monitoring Center of the Ministry of Defense, 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 beginning to change that,” he explained.
He added the platform is a combination of programs that have worked in other countries, adapted to the Dominican situation.
He 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 the Sidcom, the Police have been using about 500 smartphones for a week.
He added that in addition to the implementation of the platform and technological tools, the Police will integrate more agents, so they will train another 3,000 officers for this year.
The head of state announced that through an application for mobile devices, citizens will be able to access the platform to file complaints.
On his side, the northwest regional director of the Police, General Juan Gerónimo Brown Pérez, creator of the software, explained that through the system, agents will be able to determine real time using nicknames, physical characteristics, tattoos, in addition to vehicle license plate numbers. if the arrested person has an arrest warrant.
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.”
