Deputies from three political parties attributed this morning “to the complicity” and “partnership” between police and prosecutors many of the mistreatment and homicides that occur in police stations.
They also agreed that in most cases the representatives of the Public Ministry end up doing police work or obeying their orders.
Juan Dionicio Rodríguez Restituyo, president of the Human Rights Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Fiordaliza Peguero, spokeswoman for the block of deputies of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) and Elpidio Báez, representative of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), insisted also in which the director of the Police is obliged to give explanations about the death of several young people in police stations.
“What is happening, what is happening is the lack of institutionality, the prosecutors that they put in the barracks end up being policemen and acting like policemen, and subjugated to the orders of the Police, they lose their personality and collude with the police mafias . The topic of us is going to end up in the topic of corruption, that prosecutors and police collude to get money from the citizens,” he said. Rodriguez Restored.
He added that “the policemen grab the citizens and take them to the barracks, and to leave the barracks the relatives have to bring him money, it does not matter if they grab him in a fair or unfair way, they take away his motor, the relatives go and take him the motor papers, but to deliver it they have to pay and that is the collusion, of the mafia and corruption”.
Rodríguez Restituyo criticized the ambition of many police officers who enter the institution and do everything possible to rise socially and become millionaires from the Police.
Fiordaliza Peguero
While the PRD spokeswoman, Fiordaliza Peguero, said that the problem is not only with the police, but also with the prosecutors.
He considered that if the prosecutors fulfilled their duty, many of the abuses and deaths in the barracks would not occur.
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“The problem is not the National Police, the problem is the prosecution, if the prosecutors fulfill their role many of these abuses do not happen, because the duty of a prosecutor is to be on duty and they are not. If there had been a responsible prosecutor, David’s death could have been avoided, ”he considered.
Elpidio Baez
Báez proposed evaluating the work of the prosecutors in the detachments, because on many occasions they end up “understanding” with the police and that is why many prosecutors were removed from the barracks and neighborhood prosecutors’ offices were created.
“In the detachments there are no prosecutors, because the prosecutors were already acting the same as the police, so it was necessary to separate them because the police are supposed to be assistants to the Public Ministry, they accompany the Public Ministry in the investigation and in the persecution,” Held.
