With a push from the director general of the National Police, Major General Ney Bautista Almonte, the Juvenile Community Program in Puerto Plata has begun. Puerto Plata governor Ivan Rivera praised the initiative by the Police. The program will provide training for young Dominicans who “will benefit immensely from this program that seeks to guide them along the path today so that society will not have to reject them or fight them tomorrow,” explained Rivera.
The young people are receiving education programs to prevent them from joining gangs and using narcotics, as well as learning about the national symbols of patriotism (the national flag, the founding fathers, the Constitution, and the national anthem) and the importance of protecting tourism among other features.
The director general for the Community Police division of the Police, Colonel Jacobo Mateo Moquete says that 154 adolescents would take courses offered by the Community Juvenile Police over the next 2-½ months.
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El Nacional
6 November 2018
