NewsWhore
07-26-2011, 02:20 PM
The new chief of Prisons, Roberto Obando Prestol donned a baseball cap, dark sunglasses and stood in line to enter La Victoria Jail. He had the first-hand experience of being extorted by two policemen who asked for a RD$300 tip.
The experience has helped the young official to put a pilot plan into place where police agents not usually on duty at the jail are in charge of controlling admission. The plan began in Najayo and has reduced the time visitors take to get in.
Claudio Acosta, commenting in Hoy, commends the initiative and wishes that more government officials would come down to earth to discover that they are not doing things as well as they think. "I am sure that if more of our public servants, starting with the President of the Republic, were to disguise themselves as common citizens once in a while and take a concho taxi or a minibus (voladora), what we call 'a healthy bath of people', they would have a very different vision of the work they carry out and how the people perceive that work and they would be more sensible and conscientious about their responsibilities and of course a more efficient public administration."
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The experience has helped the young official to put a pilot plan into place where police agents not usually on duty at the jail are in charge of controlling admission. The plan began in Najayo and has reduced the time visitors take to get in.
Claudio Acosta, commenting in Hoy, commends the initiative and wishes that more government officials would come down to earth to discover that they are not doing things as well as they think. "I am sure that if more of our public servants, starting with the President of the Republic, were to disguise themselves as common citizens once in a while and take a concho taxi or a minibus (voladora), what we call 'a healthy bath of people', they would have a very different vision of the work they carry out and how the people perceive that work and they would be more sensible and conscientious about their responsibilities and of course a more efficient public administration."
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)