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03-20-2009, 03:00 PM
Servio Tulio Castanos Guzman, executive director of the Foundation for Institutionalism and Justice (Finjus), believes that the Police should extend the investigation it carried out in Puerto Plata on drug trafficking in the province nationwide. In an interview with El Caribe, he said that the justice system should be merciless with those found responsible for trafficking in drugs. An investigation into drug trafficking in Puerto Plata resulted in the dismissal of 31 low and high- ranking cops. The investigation, the result of surveillance carried out by General Manuel Castro, detected a series of incriminating conversations. While the cops were able to secure a court order from Judge Rosa Francia Liriano, releasing them from detention, the evidence is being circulating among the press and has been the talk of the town.
Castanos says that the evidence in the Puerto Plata case shows there is a serious problem with the Police nationwide that needs to be resolved. The report concludes that drug dealers in Puerto Plata were practically employing Police and National Drug Control Department officers. Castanos says that if this situation cannot be resolved, then another police force would have to be set up.
Manuel Maria Mercedes, president of the National Human Rights Commission, believes that state prosecutors need to take the investigations further and penalize those responsible. "This shows that the country's intelligence bodies have been deficient because situations of this kind have come up on other occasions and it is only when they hit the press that the institutions act," he said.
Virgilio Almanzar, president of the Dominican Human Rights Committee, said that Penal Court judge Rosa Francia Liriano had acted irresponsibly, given that there is too much evidence that incriminates the officers.
Today a court in Puerto Plata, Primer Tribunal de Atencion Permanente de Puerto Plata, will hear requests for coercion measures requested by prosecutors against 31 former cops who are accused of protecting drug traffickers and committing crimes on instructions from drug dealers. The president of the Puerto Plata Lawyers Association said that prosecutors had acted irregularly by failing to issue an arrest order for the cops, despite the fact that the cops had been under arrest for about a month.
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Castanos says that the evidence in the Puerto Plata case shows there is a serious problem with the Police nationwide that needs to be resolved. The report concludes that drug dealers in Puerto Plata were practically employing Police and National Drug Control Department officers. Castanos says that if this situation cannot be resolved, then another police force would have to be set up.
Manuel Maria Mercedes, president of the National Human Rights Commission, believes that state prosecutors need to take the investigations further and penalize those responsible. "This shows that the country's intelligence bodies have been deficient because situations of this kind have come up on other occasions and it is only when they hit the press that the institutions act," he said.
Virgilio Almanzar, president of the Dominican Human Rights Committee, said that Penal Court judge Rosa Francia Liriano had acted irresponsibly, given that there is too much evidence that incriminates the officers.
Today a court in Puerto Plata, Primer Tribunal de Atencion Permanente de Puerto Plata, will hear requests for coercion measures requested by prosecutors against 31 former cops who are accused of protecting drug traffickers and committing crimes on instructions from drug dealers. The president of the Puerto Plata Lawyers Association said that prosecutors had acted irregularly by failing to issue an arrest order for the cops, despite the fact that the cops had been under arrest for about a month.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)