It has become known that last Sunday in Santiago, the police detained a drug trafficker with coke and an illegal Glock on his person. This subject was taken to the local station in Ensanche Espaillat. Apparently, he called someone to come help him out and who shows up but a Colonel de la Cruz, son of General Juan Ram?n de la Cruz, police commander for the North.
When this colonel demanded he be given the prisoner (to free his buddy, of course), the woman sergeant in charge told him the captain commanding the station instructed her not to give him up except to someone from the public justice system such as a district attorney. This animal of a colonel proceeded to attack the 5-month pregnant police sergeant and by force took the keys and freed his drug trafficking-buddy. But things did not end there.
When the incident became known, the General father of this delinquent colonel forced the sergeant to sign a document denying everything she had said to the judicial authorities and proceeded to send out his spokesman, a colonel Calvo, to do the usual, referring to a ?commission? being appointed to investigate the incident.
This is more evidence of the complicities at all levels in the Dominican society where everyone covers everyone else be it for family, friendship, work, political or whatever reason. If the president does not remove this general and his son from the police force then it becomes one more case of ?business as usual?. That is, a lot of ?blah, blah? regarding fighting the rampant corruption and drug trafficking within the officials in the government and police and military and very little solid action to actually combat the problem.
What a country!
When this colonel demanded he be given the prisoner (to free his buddy, of course), the woman sergeant in charge told him the captain commanding the station instructed her not to give him up except to someone from the public justice system such as a district attorney. This animal of a colonel proceeded to attack the 5-month pregnant police sergeant and by force took the keys and freed his drug trafficking-buddy. But things did not end there.
When the incident became known, the General father of this delinquent colonel forced the sergeant to sign a document denying everything she had said to the judicial authorities and proceeded to send out his spokesman, a colonel Calvo, to do the usual, referring to a ?commission? being appointed to investigate the incident.
This is more evidence of the complicities at all levels in the Dominican society where everyone covers everyone else be it for family, friendship, work, political or whatever reason. If the president does not remove this general and his son from the police force then it becomes one more case of ?business as usual?. That is, a lot of ?blah, blah? regarding fighting the rampant corruption and drug trafficking within the officials in the government and police and military and very little solid action to actually combat the problem.
What a country!
