NewsWhore
02-16-2011, 02:50 PM
The government has disbursed RD$18.3 million from the Police Retirement Fund to help the families of 23 policemen who fell in the line of duty over the last year.
For example, on 12 September 2010, several men ambushed a patrol in the Los Girasoles section of the capital, killing Second Lieutenant Martires Perez Diaz and agents Otanez Medina and Arturo Ogando Ramirez. Their widows received RD$2.1 million, shared between the three families and was used to improve living conditions for the surviving family members.
Police Officer's Wives Association (ADEOP) president Reina Teresa Welosky de Campusano told Diario Libre reporters that she runs a program that provides assistance for families of police members who are killed by criminals. ADEOP receives 100 food rations from the government's Social Plan each month, and the same amount from the Institute of Price Stabilization (INESPRE), which are delivered to 28 families of police members who died in the line of duty.
The plan includes free schooling for the children of the late agents and a pension for the widow and her children, as well as legal support for any who have not been able to fulfill the requisites for drawing a pension.
Dona Isabel de Otanez, widow of policeman Otanez Medina, says that she built her house with a RD$700,000 check that she received two weeks after her husband was killed.
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For example, on 12 September 2010, several men ambushed a patrol in the Los Girasoles section of the capital, killing Second Lieutenant Martires Perez Diaz and agents Otanez Medina and Arturo Ogando Ramirez. Their widows received RD$2.1 million, shared between the three families and was used to improve living conditions for the surviving family members.
Police Officer's Wives Association (ADEOP) president Reina Teresa Welosky de Campusano told Diario Libre reporters that she runs a program that provides assistance for families of police members who are killed by criminals. ADEOP receives 100 food rations from the government's Social Plan each month, and the same amount from the Institute of Price Stabilization (INESPRE), which are delivered to 28 families of police members who died in the line of duty.
The plan includes free schooling for the children of the late agents and a pension for the widow and her children, as well as legal support for any who have not been able to fulfill the requisites for drawing a pension.
Dona Isabel de Otanez, widow of policeman Otanez Medina, says that she built her house with a RD$700,000 check that she received two weeks after her husband was killed.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#13)