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NewsWhore
06-18-2012, 06:10 PM
Speaking at a press conference on Friday 15 June, General Lodwing Suardi Correa, Police commander for eastern Santo Domingo, and Carlos Cota Lama, the government's representative at Las Americas International Airport announced the creation of a unit that will operate 24 hours to protect travelers from the airport to Santo Domingo. They said the unit will have the men and equipment needed to prevent robberies and will launch an intelligence operation to detect suspected insiders who are leaking information on travelers who declare cash upon arrival. "Plainclothes men will be working on the intelligence aspect to detect the criminals and there will be men in uniform in the operational part," said General Suardi Correa upon making the announcement of the special highway security surveillance force. The US Embassy recently issued a warning to its citizens in the DR of robberies from the Las Americas Airport to the city at night.

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