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NewsWhore
06-11-2008, 02:40 PM
The Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior and Police are each trying to exert control over the growing private security business. According to Diario Libre, the ministries are fighting so intensely over final control of the sector that the process in the Dominican Congress that will actually produce a bill to oversee the industry has been stalled for weeks. The president of the Permanent Commission of the Interior and Police and Citizen Safety, Jose Ramon de la Rosa Mateo, told reporters that the review process of the bill is well advanced and that his committee is just waiting for the decision on who will house and control the supervision of all private security. Both the Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior and of the Police want the job. Both ministries have been asked to submit their proposals to the committee, according to the senator from San Juan de la Maguana.

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