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02-21-2007, 02:00 PM
The head of the National Drug Control Department (DNCD) has told reporters covering the installation of new detection equipment in the Las Americas Airport that the "public is unaware of the scale and severity" of the drug problem in the Dominican Republic. Major General Rafael Ramirez Ferreira said that drugs are costing the nation dearly at all levels of society due to a lack of awareness about the seriousness of the problem. General Ramirez praised the work of the prosecutors who work with the DNCD and promised to continue the fight. The new x-ray machines are designed to cause less inconvenience to passengers suspected of being drug mules, and will prevent the bother of taking suspects to hospitals for closer inspections.
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