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09-22-2006, 04:00 PM
The National Department for Drug Control (DNCD) has announced that they are raising the salaries of their special operations officers to reduce corruption on the job. Robert Lebron, spokesperson for the DNCD, announced the raises are effective this month, according ot a report in El Caribe. More raises would be forthcoming as funding to the department is increased. Lebron did not disclose the actual amounts involved, but explained that the DNCD has strengthened its employee evaluation process and now requires the fulfillment of new requirements set forth by new Director Rafael Ramirez Ferreiras. The announcement comes after the DNCD fired 220 officials and closed three offices for committing improprieties.
Lebron also announced that the DNCD has arrested a Canadian man who was traveling to Spain, with 8.715 kilos of cocaine in his jeans, and the arrest of three men who were on the run for narcotics trafficking.

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