Dominican President announces operation to curb crime

After two years of restrictions due to Covid-19, the return to normality in the Dominican Republic has been plagued by robberies, assaults and homicides.

The president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, reported this Thursday on the beginning of the Joint Operation “My Safe Country” between the police and the Armed Forces to combat criminal acts, given the increase in violence in that Caribbean nation.

The measure was publicly announced from the esplanade of the National Police Palace, and although he did not specify the time or the communities selected to start the police operations, he stated that they will continue for as long as necessary.

In his intervention, the head of state insisted that the joint operation will be carried out with fair adherence to the laws, the Dominican constitution and human rights, prioritizing the rights of Dominican citizens to be safe in their homes.

In this sense, the president specified: “I want to send this message to every neighborhood, to every corner of the Dominican Republic: we are not going to rest in our efforts, in what refers to the men and women of our Police and the Armed Forces. , to use those that were necessary, nor are we going to spare resources to achieve that goal”.

Abinader expressly addressed the violators of the laws, requesting a peaceful surrender, because otherwise they will be found wherever they are; and he emphasized that the government will not accept a mafia peace mediated by agreements between the government and criminal groups.

Abinader’s announcement takes place days after the murder of four members of a criminal gang called Los Menores or Chuky Malos, during an exchange of fire with police officers from the Central Directorate of Investigation (Dicrim), in which two other men were injured. .