Fernandez to disarm the civilian population

[NewsWhore]

President Leonel Fernandez has announced a plan to expand efforts to disarm the civilian population and to seek people who have illegal weapons in the Dominican Republic. Yesterday, the Council for Democratic Security looked at the results of the first month since the Presidential decrees limiting the sale of alcoholic beverages were instituted. The Minister of the Interior said that the number of homicides had gone down, and the Metropolitan Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, said that the entire country was experiencing the effects of better security. According to Listin Diario, the disarming of the general population will take place in keeping with the regulations worked out by the Ministry of the Interior and the Police. The President also announced that a new program to improve living conditions for police and military personnel would go into effect within one month.

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