He has been in the post barely 25 days, but the new National Police Chief has removed 43 agents, 23 of them officers accused of bad conduct.
Major General Manuel Castro Castillo warned that any police officer found guilty of bad conduct would be dismissed from the Police. Just last Friday, 20 July the Higher Police Council dealt with the dismissal of 14 members accused of an irregular raid that occurred on 16 October 2012 in Sosua, Puerto Plata province where it was said that RD$60 million was “lost.”
The group of those dismissed or forcibly retired includes two colonels, along with four first lieutenants a second lieutenant and six members from the lower ranks.
They also recommended the suspension of a second lieutenant and he was handed over to the judicial authorities in Sosua. All these men are under investigation in Sosua, in relation to a complaint of an irregular search carried out in the La Mulata III residential community last October.
The colonels who were recommended for compulsory retirement are Raymundo de la Rosa Ogando and Roberto Salcedo Santos.
They also recommended the retirement of first lieutenants Juan Maria Toribio Castillo, Francis Sanchez Fernandez and Nilson Pena Encarnacion, as well as second lieutenant Felix Silverio.
At that same time dismissal was recommended for First Lieutenant Sandy Ramon Ferreira Diaz, Sergeant Major Pedro Antonio Fernandez (Maseta), Sergeants Stalin Castillo Basora, Edgar de la Rosa Rosario and Jose Manuel Hiraldo Martinez as well as privates Vicele Vasquez Zayas and Juan Luis Jimenez Sosa.
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