Dominican Republic National Police

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Dominican National Police Policía Nacional Dominicana
Dominican National Police Emblem
Common name	Policía Nacional
Abbreviation	PN
Motto	Ley y Orden Law and Order
Agency overview
Formed	March 2, 1936 (1936-03-02)
Employees	36,968
Jurisdictional structure
National agency	Dominican Republic
Operations jurisdiction	Dominican Republic
General nature	Local civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Palacio de la Policía Nacional
Agency executive	Eduardo Alberto Then, Major General
Parent agency	Ministry of Interior and Police
Notables
Person	Jesús Vázquez, Head of agency, for policing, national security and immigration matters.
Website
www.policianacional.gob.do

The Dominican National Police (Spanish: Policía Nacional Dominicana) is the national police force of the Dominican Republic. It is the largest police force in the Dominican Republic under the control of the Ministry of Interior and Police. Ranks and insignia are similar to those of the Dominican Army.

Its main function is to protect the Dominican nation, enforce the law by constitutional mandate to maintain and guarantee the necessary conditions for public freedoms and rights and to ensure peaceful cohabitation among the population.

During the U.S. Occupation of Dominican Republic from 1916 to 1924, the United States Military assisted in creating the Dominican Constabulary Guard (DCG), which acted as national police and defense agency and the forerunner for today's Dominican National Police.

The National Congress of Dominican Republic enacted law 14 on November 5, 1930, which allows the leader of the Dominican Republic to appoint and dismiss municipal (local) heads of police. For the next six years Dominican Republic had various municipal (local) police officers as well as Constabulary Guard. The national police force itself (as the agency it is today) is not officially formed until March 2, 1936, with the congressional passing of decree No. 1523. With the formation of a new national police force, Colonel Miguel A. Roman was appointed as the head of the Dominican National Police. [2]

On May 17, 1966, a general training school for military and police officers was created in the DR. Two years later on June 20, 1968, the National Police Officer Training School was established in San Cristobal under the surpervision of the school's first director, Eulogio Benito. Later, General Order No. 014-2004 gave the academy the name the "National School of Public Safety" whose motto remains to this day "Education-Discipline-Protection."^{[citation needed]}

In January 1983 a school of Criminal Investigations was created to provide advanced training to police officers who were given the positions of investigators in the National Police Force. The importance of training and education of police officers was recognized early on in the agency and various other "continuing education" and advanced training schools were created in various disciplines for officer in Dominican Republic National Poilice Force that are still in use today.^{[citation needed]}

General Order No 47 created the Homicide division in January 1941 and was called the " Identification and Investigation" unit. In 1976 the name of the unit was changed to the "department of Investigations of Homicides". The Unit is responsible for investigating not only homicides and murders but also all incidents of suicide, gunshot wounds and all deaths of unknown causes in Dominican Republic.^{[citation needed]}

The National Police force maintained a special unit to police the airports and tourism areas in Dominican Republic then in 1975 due to the popularity of tourism on the island and the crime that arose in the tourist areas the unit became a separate police force called POLITUR,"Policia de Turismo" (tourism police). The Policia de Turismo is now a separate agency from the National Police and the officers wear white shirts, blue pants and blue caps.

In 2013 POLITUR was reorganized as the Cuerpo Especializado de Seguridad Turística (CESTUR). This new organization is a part of the Ministry of Defense, changing it from a civilian police organization to a military one.

The Police operate 3 aircraft.

Aircraft	Origin	Type	Versions	In service[1]	Notes
Bell OH-58 Kiowa	United States	scout helicopter	OH-58A	1
Eurocopter Ecureuil	France	light utility helicopter	AS-350B	1
Cessna 172 Skyhawk	United States	utility airplane	Ce172	1

In 2020 the senior officer of the National Police was Ney Aldrín Bautista Almonte.^[2]

• Crime in the Dominican Republic
• DNI
• DNCD
• Law Enforcement in Dominican Republic

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20161119035055/http://www.policianacional.gov.do/

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