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07-18-2006, 04:10 PM
Advisor on narcotics to the President, Marino Vinicio Castillo said that the military and the police have been infiltrated by people with ties to narcotics or crime. As reported in Hoy, he said that he has reports that 90% of the criminal gangs operating in the country have police or military personnel among their ranks. He attributed this to the dangerous penetration of these individuals during the Mejia government. He commented that after the passing of the penal procedures code drug trafficking cases have practically disappeared from the courts. He said that this instrument makes life easy for the criminals. He referred to statistics that show that 6,811 people were arrested, but only 814 advanced to a court hearing, and of those, only 10% have received prison orders. He criticized the fact that the new penal procedures code puts the weight of the investigation on the prosecutor. He lamented the fact that this code was passed in 2004, at a time when crime was consolidating itself in the country.
As reported in El Caribe, Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito also attributes the increase in crime to the infiltration of the official crime fighting organizations by drug traffickers.
Police chief Major General Bernardo Santana said that over 60 officers have been fired from the force as part of a general purge.
Sources explain that what has happened is that the DR has gone from being merely a trans-shipment point for drugs exported to the US, to a country with a considerable domestic market for drugs. This occurred because the drug dealers were paid in drugs and had to develop a local market in order to cash their profits. The new addicts now resort to violent crime in order to maintain their vice.
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As reported in El Caribe, Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito also attributes the increase in crime to the infiltration of the official crime fighting organizations by drug traffickers.
Police chief Major General Bernardo Santana said that over 60 officers have been fired from the force as part of a general purge.
Sources explain that what has happened is that the DR has gone from being merely a trans-shipment point for drugs exported to the US, to a country with a considerable domestic market for drugs. This occurred because the drug dealers were paid in drugs and had to develop a local market in order to cash their profits. The new addicts now resort to violent crime in order to maintain their vice.
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