The head of the National Drug Control Agency, Major General Julio Cesar Souffront, delivered a report to the Chief of the National Police, Major General Manuel Castro Castillo yesterday, Wednesday 19 February, in which the DNCD reveals that a large number of police officers assigned to the province of San Cristobal were providing protection for the recently arrested gang of drug dealers led by Cristian Pozo (El Matatan). Souffront thanked the Chief of Police for his help with the investigation that revealed that members of the National Police and the DNCD were in complicity in protecting the drug dealers. The officers involved are under arrest as the investigations continue, according to El Nuevo Diario.