The Ministry of Interior and Police will implement a plan to recruit young people from different neighborhoods with the aim of incorporating then into the Community Police division of the National Police to contribute towards citizen safety. According to Inteior & Police Minister, José Ramón Fadul , the project will being today, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 with a pilot plan in Santiago. This first phase will be to recruit 50 young people from the Cienfuegos barrio, between the ages of 12 and 17, who will be trained and equipped to serve as community police.
According to Juston Guzmán, Deputy Minister of Social Management and Citizen Education, the plan will reach 21 neighborhoods in Santiago and other provinces and there will also be workshops and training courses.
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Diario Libre
3 July 2018
