Technology beats criminal networks in the country

With the technological progress that the Government has achieved in recent years, the forces of public order have clarified more than 60 per cent of crimes and offences committed throughout all the country, including major cases of drug trafficking, such as networks of Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo and the Puerto Rican fugitive, José David Figueroa August, and some fifteen bands of international drug trafficking, kidnappers, extortionists, cyber pirates and sicarios.

The international police (Interpol), whose headquarters works in the Palace of the national police under the command of Colonel Atahualpa Cabrera Sarita has also arrested 30 offenders foreigners in 2011, who had taken refuge in the national territory after committing crimes in their countries of origin. Equally, some ten Dominicans who escaped from the country were located and extradited.

A database of interconnected with 160 countries does u000apossible that the Dominican police could identify any foreign fugitive, through his fingerprints or facial profile in just seconds, and equally, can issuing arrest warrants of Dominicans in any of those Nations.

One of the recent cases was the arrest in Bavaro of the British citizen, Michael Darren Patrick, two weeks ago, accused by police of his country have swindled banks and people for more than 50 million euros. "As soon he arrived in the country, the British Government sent us his facial profile and their fingerprints digital, and in seconds check your income to the country," said Cabrera Sarita.

Assassins
in the case of the band of assassins linked to the network of Figueroa August, tracing a telephone call placed to one of the accused at the place and time of the murder of businessman Ruben Soto Hayet. The Chief of police, major general Joseph a. Polanco Gómez, then head of the Department of u000aResearch criminals, said that the defendants used gloves to not leave evidence on the vehicles after committing the murders, apagaban cell phones and heading to different places, and sometimes distant.

But intelligence teams managed rastraer several calls, crossed information for expertise and placed the suspects and the weapons used in the deaths of Soto Hayet, Ramón Omar Antigua Polanco and ex-Colonel José a. González.

Evidence
A fingerprint left on a stolen yipeta which was recovered by the police, allowed the arrest of the person responsible for the theft after a crossing of fingerprints in the database of the national police, which shows the technological advances in the Central Directorate of criminal investigations (Dicrim), led by general Héctor García Cuevas.

Are many advances and improvements that have been made in the programmes of technology of the Dicrim, since u000aThis agency was founded in the year 1999, as a central platform to facilitate the regional directorates of the police identification people with criminal records quickly, avoiding to make go through other persons to commit new crimes.

Is composed of more than fifteen branches and departments, among whom are Interpol, follow-up processes criminals, strategic development, offences against the person, killings, abductions, registration and Control of Deportados, missing persons, cases not determined, stealing the public patrimony, counterfeiting, smuggling of goods, vehicles stolen, financial intelligence, search Prófugos, weapons trafficking, police science, high technology crimes (DICAT).

All these departments are intertwined each other and with other institutions and national security agencies, such as the armed forces, DNCD, DNI, national army, the Navy, u000athe Dominican air force and the service of intelligence J2.

Officials working in the research are professionally trained abroad, with the support of the services research of several friendly countries, especially United States, France and Spain.

The past five years, with the support of President Leonel Fernandez will have acquired modern equipment which are used in the expertises to make comparisons of fingerprints and ballistic, fingerprint comparison of shells, bushings, calligraphic tests and other evidence, through the scientific police, an organization created in 2006.

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Cyber crimes uncovered
organized crime, precisely, increasingly used the technology to carry out their criminal actions at all levels. A way of committing a crime is through the ciberspacio, through actions ranging from difimación via electronic mail to the electronic embezzlement u000aBank accounts, using techniques such as phishing.

The police has a Department for investigation of crimes of high technology, known as the DICAT, which has solved many cases for citizens and businesses have been affected by operations criminals.

El DICAT, directed by Colonel Lycurgus Yunes, has a staff of officers and highly qualified technicians who train themselves permanently at universities and police institutions of United States, France and Spain. These countries, moreover, contribute with sophisticated equipment for research Cybernetics.

El DICAT gives support to other research agencies nationally and internationally, in conjunction with other attachments to departments of the Directorate of criminal investigations.

The basic objectives of the DICAT are preparing increasingly its staff to counter cyber threats, obvious vulnerabilities before the employment of u000aelectronic equipment, such as cell phones, cameras, the Jump Drive, and even electronic agendas, Hackers, viruses, logic bombs and worms.

Cyber criminals can go unnoticed across borders, hiding behind countless "links" or, simply fade away without leaving any trace document.

However, with the recent progress made by the Dominican police have been resolved hundreds of cases from the simple to the of varied and intricate complexity.

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