Dominican and Haitian police chiefs met in the border town of Jimani last Friday and came to an agreement to return each other’s criminals who have crossed the frontier to escape justice. They also agreed to extend their fight against drugs and arms trafficking as well as cross-border people and vehicle smuggling. As proof of the new climate, Haitian police chief Mario Andre-Sol, handed over former police lieutenant Remigio Garcia Figuereo who had been serving a 20-year sentence in the Dominican Republic for his part in the murder of Victor Augusto Feliz Matos, and Jose Martin Lopez who is wanted for murdering a young girl. General Bernardo Santana Paez, the Dominican chief of police, said that his men were returning stolen vehicles that had been recovered in Dominican territory. He also gave the Haitian policeman a CD that contained the database of stolen vehicles that are presumed to be in Haiti. The Haitian official was effusive in his praise of the intelligence operations carried out by the Dominican armed forces that has led to the capture of wanted people on both sides of the border.