Santo Domingo, RD.
The director of the National Police (PN), Edward Sánchez González, indicated that all the action protocols taught to the members of that institution were violated in the murder of the married couple Elizabeth Muñoz and Joel Díaz, on Tuesday of the week. in Villa Altagracia.
He assured that the police officers in office did not purge the vehicle in which the married couple was, they were not invited to lower the windows, to identify themselves, among other steps to follow.
“All protocols of action have been violated, there are no excuses, it is a fact that should never have happened, the lives of members have never been in danger,” he said in an interview in the report with journalist Alicia Ortega .
Sánchez said that the order of the National Police agents was to stop a white vehicle that had committed criminal acts in Bonao and therefore an alert was issued and a checkpoint was installed. He said the complaint was a stolen permit.
“When we started the investigations we realized that an excess had been committed, the departure of the police was not in danger, the lives of individuals were not in danger, there was no attack on the patrol, in this case the checkpoint that responded to an alert with about some robberies that took place. A white vehicle was being pursued. The data they initially collected, because they were people who had gone to report to the Bonao crew that a white vehicle with several elements stripped them of a passage “, he assured.
Sánchez González indicated that the case is still open, where a parallel investigation is underway for the application of a disciplinary sentence.
The director of the National Police reported that the testimonies of the investigation will be public “soon” and that all the internal responsibility of “superiors and members who acted will be clarified”.
Elizabeth Muñoz and Joel Díaz were killed last Tuesday by members of the National Police while traveling in their car, a white Kia, after returning from a Christian vigil.
For this death, the police suspended César Martínez Lora, Victorino Reyes Navarro, Domingo Perdomo Reyes, Norkys Rodríguez Jiménez and Ángel de los Santos, Anthony Castro Pérez and Juan Manuel Ogando Solís.
Luis Abinader later asked Interior and Police Minister Jesús “Chu” Vásquez to cancel those involved in the incident.