If you are a Dominican high school graduate and want to become a policeman, no problem. There are 3,500 vacancies for new recruits. The police chief, Major General Manuel de Jesus Perez Sanchez admits that salaries are not at all attractive to young people, and the job is not all that attractive, either. Only young people along the Dominican-Haitian frontier have fulfilled recruitment quotas, but youngsters in Santo Domingo and Santiago have ignored the call to serve and protect. So far, only 1,500 applications have been received for the 5,000 jobs for high school graduates that were announced by General Perez Sanchez last September. Some provinces, assigned fifty spots in the recruiting class, have only received five or six requests and some important provincial centers, such as Santiago have had no applications at all. “Not a single application from the Cibao,” lamented the general.