Robbery is number one crime

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The director of the National School for Magistrates (ENMP), Ramon Nunez told reporters that robbery, forgery of documents, homicides, drug-related crimes, assaults, and injuries from intra-family violence are the top incidents of crime in the Dominican Republic over the past decade. Due to the nature of these crimes, the greatest challenge for the National School for Magistrates is the professional training of prosecutors and district attorneys. Nunez told reporters from Hoy that he favored the selection of the Attorney General through a process that involved the Congress. He said that this would give greater legitimacy and authority to the President's selection. When asked about the role of the Justice Department in the fight against crime, Nunez said that looking at the statistical results of ten year's worth of crime, it was obvious that magistrates needed to be really up to date on the procedural techniques for processing these crimes. This, he said, was the role played by the National School for Magistrates.

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