Police Chief Major General Bernardo Santana Paez has disclosed that since the launch of the measures aimed at reducing crime, known as the Democratic Security Plan, the country has seen a reduction of 564 homicides this year in comparison to 2005, which represents a fall of 23%. He explained that the information is contained in the police statistics summary, which indicates that from August 2004 to July 2005 there were 2,472 murders. During the same period in 2005-2006 there were only 1,908, as reported by Listin Diario.