AMET agents will know your history

Before the end of the Christmas period, AMET (the Metropolitan Transportation Authority) will be implementing  a modern system, providing traffic police with a a PDA (hand-held computer), enabling them to instantly call up information on people through their driving license ID.

With the new system, AMET will be linked with intelligence agencies of institutions such as the Drug Enforcement Administration, Police, the Attorney General and others, which will allow an AMET agent to know in seconds if you have a history, or criminal cases pending with the courts.

Major General José Aníbal Sanz Jiminian from AMET, explained that in 15 days the pilot project will start and they are already training 90 graduate officers who will be on the streets with these new devices.

"When you stop to ask and are asked for your license, the PDA will be able to read the barcode on your license, "said Sanz Jiminian. He said the computer will not only pull up the amount of fines that might be due, but tells the police if a person is being sought by the DNCD, the Attorney General, Immigration or the Justice department. It will also identify an offender who has raped, killed or committed any violation.

Crime
"That will also help to reduce crime in the Dominican Republic," said San Jiminian. "Already, in the U.S. a high percentage of offenders are found precisely through this system operated by the traffic police."

"That's what we're going to do here at home, because we have to be at the level of other developed countries."

We are aware that if we are to succeed, we need to be educating people, enabling more and more AMET members, and obtaining financial support from the state and businessmen needed to get the equipment and do the job, " added the AMET director.

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