Speaking at a get together of PLD members in Chicago, President Fernandez told the audience that he was ordering a cleanup of the military and the police. Fernandez did not hesitate to tie the military and the police to many recent narcotics cases that have shaken both forces as well as the Dominican political and justice entities. He said that he had asked part of the New York City Police Department to take over the police training facilities at Hatillo, San Cristobal so that the new members of the force receive the same training as graduates of the NYPD academy. He also said that the police would be better equipped in the near future, and that citizen protection was being implemented with the new 911 call centers.