New police unit authorized to enter homes of battered women without warrants
Santo Domingo
The police chief, Major General Jose Armando Polanco Gomez, opened a unit specializing in care for women victims of violence, which is authorized to enter the homes of the victims without waiting for a court order, so that the battered woman is protected immediately.
Polanco Gomez ordered the agents not to participate in any agreement with the aggressors, but all violators to be arrested and then taken to the prosecutor.
He regretted that so far this year some 114 women were murdered by their partners or former partners.
"Women are shoulder to shoulder holding national development," he added. He stressed that women develop in many areas and men have to understand that "a woman is not any objects."
Polanco said the new unit began operating with limited human resources, with only two cars, but vowed to continue to increase the units.
For his part, the Colonel Teresa Martinez, in charge of the Directorate Specialties Women's Affairs and Domestic Violence of the National Police said she held a training program for all members of the National Police.
He explained that implemented the campaign "Say no to violence, harmony in difference is Peace" project, he said, will spread across the country and work 24 hours a day.
The event was attended by Adozona Vice President, Jose Manuel Torres, Deputy Minister of Women, Sonia Diaz, Vice President of the Senate, Cristina Lizardo, Assistant Director of Amet, Clara Mendez and Dr. Antonia Coello Novello, former Surgeon General of the United States , among others.
Nueva unidad policial autoriza a entrar a casas de mujeres maltratadas sin orden judicial - listindiario.com
Santo Domingo
The police chief, Major General Jose Armando Polanco Gomez, opened a unit specializing in care for women victims of violence, which is authorized to enter the homes of the victims without waiting for a court order, so that the battered woman is protected immediately.
Polanco Gomez ordered the agents not to participate in any agreement with the aggressors, but all violators to be arrested and then taken to the prosecutor.
He regretted that so far this year some 114 women were murdered by their partners or former partners.
"Women are shoulder to shoulder holding national development," he added. He stressed that women develop in many areas and men have to understand that "a woman is not any objects."
Polanco said the new unit began operating with limited human resources, with only two cars, but vowed to continue to increase the units.
For his part, the Colonel Teresa Martinez, in charge of the Directorate Specialties Women's Affairs and Domestic Violence of the National Police said she held a training program for all members of the National Police.
He explained that implemented the campaign "Say no to violence, harmony in difference is Peace" project, he said, will spread across the country and work 24 hours a day.
The event was attended by Adozona Vice President, Jose Manuel Torres, Deputy Minister of Women, Sonia Diaz, Vice President of the Senate, Cristina Lizardo, Assistant Director of Amet, Clara Mendez and Dr. Antonia Coello Novello, former Surgeon General of the United States , among others.
Nueva unidad policial autoriza a entrar a casas de mujeres maltratadas sin orden judicial - listindiario.com
