National Drug Control Agency (DNCD) chief Major General Julio Cesar Souffront Velazquez, German Ambassador Victoria Zimmermann Von Siefart, and the director of the Haitian anti-drugs agency, Joris Mergelus, headed a graduation ceremony for 27 officers and agents from both agencies yesterday, Monday 18 August 2014. The agents had attended a training course on “The Fight against Drug Crime”.
The workshop was sponsored by the German Embassy and given by German expert, Karls Roland, from the German Anti Drug Agency (BGA). Twenty Dominicans and seven Haitians attended the workshop.
Souffront Velazquez thanked the German Embassy for the course and said that it was vitally important that the two countries worked together against drug criminals.
Zimmermann Von Siefart highlighted the importance of international police cooperation against a crime that knows no geographical boundaries.
Agentes antidroga RD y Haití se entrenan para combatir narco