President Luis Abinader dedicated his La Semanal press conference on 14 October 2024 to present the advances in Police reform.
Around 4,000 newly trained Police will be patroling with body cams and QRs with their identity on their uniforms to push forward efforts to create a reputation of the force at the service of citizens. The new uniforms will be available for the newly trained agents by 2025.
The government expects to have trained 20,000 agents in the next four years. The Abinader administration has considerably improved working conditions for agents making it attractive for young men and women to join the force. Wages for entry Police are up 142%.
The new Escuela de Entrenamiento Policial campus Gaspar Hernández has capacity to train 4,000 agents a year.
More than 3,000 police in the force have received human rights and citizen coexistence courses in 13 universities. The new agents receive these courses as part of their training.
Abinader said the efforts to transform the Police are working. He said that in 2022 the homicide rate was 13.2 per 100,000 inhabitants. In 2023 this had declined to 11.5 and so far this 2024 the rate is at 9.9. The President said that at present the average in Latin America and the Caribbean is 17.2.
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