Abinader signs a 6.6-million-dollar agreement with the USA to fight organized crime
President Luis Abinader signed a 6.6-million-dollar agreement with the United States Department of State to support the country in its fight against drug trafficking, organized crime, and police reform.
This is the first agreement of this type that the USA signs with the country, in which they also seek to collaborate against administrative corruption and facilitate the accreditation process of the National Police at the international level and the accountability bodies of the uniformed.
“Our team from the United States Embassy is here today because we want to be your partner in this effort,” said the Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy in the country, Robert Thomas.
Other lines of action in which the 6.6 million dollars will be allocated are:
- The promotion of programs to strengthen citizen security
- Mechanisms to combat corruption and promote transparency
- Actions against transnational organized crime
- Technical support in legislative reforms in the police reform law
- Public procurement and contracting
- The law of extinction of domain and money laundering.
President Abinader expressed gratitude for the agreement because of its importance for the government to complete the police reform as soon as possible.
President Abinader explained that the United States, in addition to supporting the reform of the Police, also supports initiatives in the fight against corruption, improving transparency and citizen security.
Present on behalf of the United States Embassy was William Swaney, Acting Minister-Counselor; Todd Christiansen, director of the International Office of Anti-Narcotics Affairs and Law Enforcement (INL); Rebecca Latorraca, director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); and David Billings, deputy director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Among the guests, there were also Miriam Germán, attorney general; the Director of Government Ethics and Integrity, Milagros Ortiz Bosch and Janel Andrés Ramírez, president of the Chamber of Accounts.