New Police patrol streets in Santo Domingo

[Dolores]

A new National Police rollout was officially launched on Monday, 2 June 2025 with 1,100 agents wearing cameras and with specialized community interaction training. The pilot program across 137 urban areas aims to transform and modernize public safety services across the Dominican Republic, with an initial focus on the National District and Santo Domingo.

The first areas slated for reinforced surveillance are Naco, the Colonial City, and Los Mina in Santo Domingo East. The initiative will later expand to Santiago, the country’s second largest city.

The program’s launch, led by President Luis Abinader, showcased a significant upgrade in police operations. New uniforms, body cameras, non-lethal weapons, and multi-purpose belts were unveiled, signaling a “before and after” moment for the institution.

Speaking on the occasion of the start of the...

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[PJT]

Body cameras are valuable, if they are turned on and maintained in good working order... ingredients infrequently found in the DR. Waiting for the first report of an event where all the body cameras present were not working. Place your bets for date, time, and where.

Police patrols with the new bells and whistles will not make improvements unless the deep-seated do-nothing attitude culture of police changes to a proactive approach. We are waiting...

Regards,

PJT

 

[JD Jones]

I wonder how many of these police are graduates of the "New and improved training" program?

 

[NanSanPedro]

I wonder how many of these police are graduates of the "New and improved training" program?

Sounds like Police Academy to me

 

[johne]

An effort. All good. Naysayers should be happy and applause.

 

[CristoRey]

An effort. All good. Naysayers should be happy and applause.

Time will tell.

 

[Big]

love the English police pattern on their hats and pants.

 

[JD Jones]

love the English police pattern on their hats and pants.

Not English, International standards.

 

[NanSanPedro]

An effort. All good. Naysayers should be happy and applause.

Johne, by the examples the police have set here there will be no applause. The police get very little respect from me. I will always be nice and smile but I feel they're only one small step up from the criminals they allegedly control.

 

[Big]

Not English, International standards.

so sorry! I thought it was "Sllitoe tartan pattern", that's what they call it in the U.K and Chicago. Anyway, it looks way cool!

 

[johne]

Johne, by the examples the police have set here there will be no applause. The police get very little respect from me. I will always be nice and smile but I feel they're only one small step up from the criminals they allegedly control.

Sorry that the genesis of the police department certainly appears to be as you say. Sin embargo, that's the story for positions of authority all across the world...not only in the RD. Once we lose hope for a better future we become another "Haiti", lawless and depraved.
Remember, this is not our country. We are only visitors standing in THEIR house. We by necessity need to be a bit more humble. If not...it don't work.
Let's give the new police force some time and see how it goes.

 

[CristoRey]

Sorry that the genesis of the police department certainly appears to be as you say. Sin embargo, that's the story for positions of authority all across the world...not only in the RD. Once we lose hope for a better future we become another "Haiti", lawless and depraved.
Remember, this is not our country. We are only visitors standing in THEIR house. We by necessity need to be a bit more humble. If not...it don't work.
Let's give the new police force some time and see how it goes.

Hopefully they are conducting random drugs test on these guys and all of them pass. Will help to eliminate any bad apples before they start causing problems in those same areas they're being paid to protect and serve.

 

[CristoRey]

An effort. All good. Naysayers should be happy and applause.

I'm still not convinced at this point. Perhaps it's gonna require a little more time then we initially thought?

Two police officers arrested for robbing another member of the institution in Boca Chica.
EL NUEVO DIARIO, SANTO DOMINGO.- Two National Police officers were arrested this Sunday, implicated in an armed robbery of another member of the institution in La Caleta, Boca Chica. The detainees were identified as Marcial Alcibíades Feliz Martínez, 24 years old, and Jonathan Isabel Rodríguez, 27, who upon being searched were found to have two bulletproof vests, two DICRIM caps, and two balaclavas.

According to the complaint, the suspects, armed and dressed in uniforms from the Criminal Investigation Department (Dicrim), intercepted Private Ramón Claudio Saul Alfredo, who was accompanied by two people, handcuffed them, and took the PN agent's service weapon. Ramón was accompanied by his brother Elvis Ramón Claudio and Verónica María de los Santos López, who were also forcibly detained.

After alerting the authorities of what had happened, the vehicle involved was stopped, which was identified by the complainants as a blue Honda Civic, with license plate A945381. Upon inspection, the vehicle's data was revealed as a blue Toyota Corolla, license plate A945381, which is registered under the name Yolanda Raquel Ramírez.

According to the police report, when the vehicle was searched, a Carandal brand pistol, Cal., 9 mm, silver color, with its magazine and sixteen (16) capsules for it, another Glood 19 brand pistol, black, Cal. 9 mm, with its magazine and twenty-five (25) capsules for it, were found under the driver's seat.

Also found in the back seat was a rifle, model R15, without any legible numbering or brand, three rifle chargers, one hundred and two (102) capsules, Cal 22 for rifle, three (03) Iphone brand cell phones, one (01) digital police uniform jacket, a backpack, gray with green, brand Rimo 35, containing inside the amount of fourteen (14) tairra, black.

According to authorities, two license plates were found in the rear of the trunk: one with the number A951900, yellow with white, and the other with the number L456228, blue with white, which is fake.

The detainees were taken to the Boca Chica police station in the company of the supervisor of the La Caleta E4-4 zone, Second Lieutenant Eleuterio de la Cruz Salas, to proceed with the necessary procedures.

Source: EL NUEVO DIARIO