The Chief of the Police, Major General Camilo Antonio Nazir Tejada has ordered a crackdown on pornography. Police have confiscated pornographic mangazines that are exposed to the public in the shops and streets. A note from the Police public relations department indicates that they are being removed from public views because it is considered they they contravene the country’s customs, morality and deciency as well as being in outright violation of the law. Lieutenant Colonel Melido Dionisio Nuñez Muñoz, director of the Oficina de Seguridad Ciudadana is in charge of the operation. He confiscated 600 used copies of pornographic magazines on sale in the streets, including Mella, Duarte, Parque Enriquillo and also within the Mercado Modelo market.