New National Police chief Bernardo Santana Paez has told reporters that during his first month in office crime fell by 4.7% as the government put into motion its Plan for Democratic Security. He said that his investigators had solved 338 cases of homicide, rape, shootings, car theft and robberies. Santana Paez gave this news to a meeting of Ibero-American Police chiefs in Madrid, Spain. Santana Paez compared major crimes for the two months of 20 July – 19 August and 20 August – 19 September of 2005. During the former period there were 836 major crimes (52.7%) and in the latter period there were 762 major crimes or just 47.6%.