President Luis Abinader named Ramon Antonio Guzman Peralta, the current director of the Transit and Transport Security Agency (Digesett), the new director of the National Police. The appointment is in Decree 557-23. Guzman Peralta replaces Eduardo Alberto Then who reached the two-year limit in the post. Then is placed in retirement and named advisor to the President.
In the same decree, Guzman Peralta is promoted to major general.
Guzman Peralta was part of the security corps for President Luis Abinader when the later was a presidential candidate in 2020.
Guzmán Peralta was born on 15 August 1962 in the eastern El Seibo province. He has been in the Police for 37 years. He is a graduate in accounting at the Technological University of Santiago (Utesa).
President Abinader named General Francisco Osoria de la Cruz the new Digesett director, replacing Guzman Peralta. Osoria has been the central director of Internal Affairs of the National Police since June 2022.
Both appointments are in effect on 14 November 2023.
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Decree 557-23
9 November 2023