[DR1] Crime is government's priority

[NewsWhore]

An expanded government council meeting that will include the president and criminal judges of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), the presidents of both chambers of Congress, cabinet members and several civil society organizations was called by President Leonel Fernandez for Monday, 24 July to approve actions aimed at confronting the country's growing problem of violence and crime. At the meeting, the authorities are expected to present a new crime-fighting plan and will listen to parties interested in a reform of the Criminal Procedures Code. The criminal court judges are being expressly invited. It was specified that the code would be discussed through the National Commission for the Execution of the Criminal Procedures Reform.


Yesterday, the President met with Interior & Police Minister Franklin Almeyda, Police Chief Bernardo Santana Paez, Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito, Executive Branch legal advisor Cesar Pina Toribio Armed Forces Minister Sigrido Pared Perez, narcotics advisor to the President Marino Vinicio Castillo, among others to discuss actions to be taken to confront crime.


Interior & Police Minister Franklin Almeyda said at the end of the meeting: "The government wants to stress that the plan is one of state, of high priority for the state and the state is not only the government, but also Congress and the Judicial Branch".

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