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09-27-2010, 02:30 PM
President Leonel Fernandez has warned that the most serious threat to people's security is drug trafficking. He said traffickers have branched out to government security forces. He estimated that 250 million people worldwide between the ages of 15 to 64 take drugs. He said that transnational organized crime is using new violence to expand the trade and estimated that trafficking reaches US$400 billion a year.
Speaking at the 65th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, Fernandez said that drug trafficking is an underground economy dedicated to the farming, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs. Fernandez is on a 13-day tour of the US.
He said that drug trafficking plants fear and terror and murders government officials, ordinary citizens, journalists, teachers, doctors and anyone who opposes the trade. He acknowledged that drug trafficking has penetrated the Armed Forces, Police, and government intelligence and justice services.
The President said that drug trafficking needed to be fought with a true and real global scale commitment and genuine willpower at government level worldwide. He said a new paradigm, and different strategic vision is needed that concentrates efforts to fight the scourge not only in terms of supply but also on the consumption and demand side.
Fernandez said that it was essential to introduce new technologies, strengthen intelligence systems, professionalize them and train corps responsible for citizen security, design prevention mechanisms, generate educational opportunities, reduce poverty and create jobs and involve communities in constructing networks that protect from crime.
On Sunday, Chief of the Police Jose Armando Polanco Gomez said that statistics showed that drug trafficking was linked to 70% of violent crimes in the country.
For more on the President's trip to the US, see http://www.presidencia.gob.do/app/frontpage.aspx
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Speaking at the 65th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, Fernandez said that drug trafficking is an underground economy dedicated to the farming, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs. Fernandez is on a 13-day tour of the US.
He said that drug trafficking plants fear and terror and murders government officials, ordinary citizens, journalists, teachers, doctors and anyone who opposes the trade. He acknowledged that drug trafficking has penetrated the Armed Forces, Police, and government intelligence and justice services.
The President said that drug trafficking needed to be fought with a true and real global scale commitment and genuine willpower at government level worldwide. He said a new paradigm, and different strategic vision is needed that concentrates efforts to fight the scourge not only in terms of supply but also on the consumption and demand side.
Fernandez said that it was essential to introduce new technologies, strengthen intelligence systems, professionalize them and train corps responsible for citizen security, design prevention mechanisms, generate educational opportunities, reduce poverty and create jobs and involve communities in constructing networks that protect from crime.
On Sunday, Chief of the Police Jose Armando Polanco Gomez said that statistics showed that drug trafficking was linked to 70% of violent crimes in the country.
For more on the President's trip to the US, see http://www.presidencia.gob.do/app/frontpage.aspx
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)