President Danilo Medina inaugurated the new Center for Intelligence to Combat Organized Crime at the police headquarters on Friday, 25 July 2014.
In his keynote speech marking the opening of the new center, Police Chief Major General Manuel Castro Castillo said the increase in organized crime activities have made it difficult for the Police to effectively fulfill the guarantee of public safety. “It is painful to acknowledge that organized crime activities have increased beyond our institution’s response capacity,” he stated. Minister of Defense Admiral Sigfrido Pared Perez, Minister of Interior and Police Jose Ramon Fadul and Minister of the Presidency Gustavo Montalvo were also present at the event.
In the presence of President Medina, Castro Castillo admitted that the Police has been overwhelmed by the actions of organized crime. Castro said that traditionally, the high crime rate and media pressure obliged the police to work on a day- by-day basis without stopping to evaluate the result of their fundamental activities in order to plan, design and develop strategic programs that would enable them to confront the advances of crime systematically and with foresight.
Servio Tulio Castanos, executive vice president of the Fundacion Institucionalidad y Justicia (FINJUS) said that it is important that the Police now has a diagnostic of the real situation of organized crime and is designing policies to combat it.
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