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08-06-2009, 07:00 PM
In response to a recent masacre of two civilians and a police sergeant in Azua, combined with the statements from Peravia Senator Wilton Guerrero who called the province of Azua a "narco-province,"National Police Chief Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin transferred the entire police force of Azua to Santo Domingo, and placed these on "administrative leave". This is a never-before-seen movement of 194 police officers. The National Police Internal Affairs was asked to investigate the contingent from Azua.
Earlier this year two smaller forces in Puerto Plata and Bonao had been removed from their posts and a total of 245 members of the force have been formally accused of criminal association and drug trafficking.
Chief Guzman Fermin says that the removal of the Azua force was not a direct reaction to Senator Guerrero's remarks. The Chief said that the Azua force had been under investigation since last 30 July, but he could not reveal the details to the press due to the confidentiality of the case.
Senator Guerrero said that based on private information that he had received, Police Lieutenant Alberto Arturo Lopez Segura, the commanding officer of the station at La Bombita in Azua, was the brains behind the "drug heist" carried out in the community on 30 July that caused the death of the three people.
Peravia Senator Wilton Guerrero praised the move by the chief of the Police. "I think that is an appropriate reaction to the situation and I hope the truth surfaces from the investigation into the sad reality the people of Azua are going through," he told the press. Guerrero reaffirmed his description ofAzua as a "narco province" saying that it is a province where drug dealers have imposed their rules and their laws and all have to respect these.
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Earlier this year two smaller forces in Puerto Plata and Bonao had been removed from their posts and a total of 245 members of the force have been formally accused of criminal association and drug trafficking.
Chief Guzman Fermin says that the removal of the Azua force was not a direct reaction to Senator Guerrero's remarks. The Chief said that the Azua force had been under investigation since last 30 July, but he could not reveal the details to the press due to the confidentiality of the case.
Senator Guerrero said that based on private information that he had received, Police Lieutenant Alberto Arturo Lopez Segura, the commanding officer of the station at La Bombita in Azua, was the brains behind the "drug heist" carried out in the community on 30 July that caused the death of the three people.
Peravia Senator Wilton Guerrero praised the move by the chief of the Police. "I think that is an appropriate reaction to the situation and I hope the truth surfaces from the investigation into the sad reality the people of Azua are going through," he told the press. Guerrero reaffirmed his description ofAzua as a "narco province" saying that it is a province where drug dealers have imposed their rules and their laws and all have to respect these.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)