Senator Wilton Guerrero (PLD-Peravia), speaking from the forum of the Senate, said that organized crime has taken control of the streets of the Dominican Republic. He said anyone can be a victim of organized crime and common delinquency. The senator spoke to address remarks made by the chaplain of the Presidential Palace, Alejandro Cabrera, who had called for the senator to shut up and let the Police work during Sunday, 20 January 2019 mass at the Presidential chapel.
Guerrero feels the chief of the Police Major General Ney Aldrin Bautista Almonte is not doing his job and has called for his resignation. “The director of the Police does more damage to the country than child and maternal mortality, unemployment, femicides and AIDS all together,” he said.
“Police General Ney Aldrin Bautista should resign his position as chief of police, because the situation the country is experiencing indicates that the team with which he is directing public security has been a total failure, and that team in general terms it is at the service of crime, it is at the service of organized crime and crime, ” he said speaking from Congress.
He complained that Dican, DNCD and Dicrim, the government drug units, “are the biggest businesses the Dominican Republic has at this time.”
“There is no company, exporter, importer and manufacturer that yields more dividends than the DNCD, the Dicrim and the Dican. It is a lack of respect for the country that General Ney Aldrin designates his assistant at the head of the Dican to be next to that negotiation of organized crime, “he said.
Guerrero said that the country lives a curfew because of crime and people no longer wear their jewelry, leading to the bankruptcy of jewelry stores and farmers are impotent with so many robberies.
“It is not out of line on my part to request the resignation of a public official, such as the director of the Police who harms the country, because the country has a curfew due to crime, without guarantee even for a departmental commander, as Colonel Ramos was murdered in Baní,” he said. Guerrero was referring to the Police colonel who was murdered while visiting a known drug spot in the southcentral city. He also mentioned the recent murder of Freddy Breton, who was the brother of the Archbishop of Santiago.
Meanwhile, Police director Bautista Almonte said he would stay on the job. “My answer is that I am here today,” he told the press.
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24 January 2019
