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Alexander Polit, Rodrigo Farach, General Masunaga and Pedro Manuel Casals.
The directors of the Axon company presented vital technological tools to safeguard the lives of citizens and agents of the National Police, as well as such as respect for Human Rights.
Pedro Manuel Casals, spokesman for the Axon company, stated that Given the lack of protection that citizens and police officers feel in certain situations, the use of tasers and the Axon body camera will improve the behavior of both.
“We have a police force where every citizen and agent feels unprotected, now they will be able to have a camera that will record their actions. with the action of an agent, but also every conduct that citizens present & rdquo ;, she said.
“This will not be controlled by an agent, but by a special body that will have the address of all the information handled. If the agent or the citizen misbehaves, it will be registered. It is what was missing because this guarantees transparency, conduct, vigilance, supervision, and we will now have it at an affordable price, which is important”, he expressed. Pedro Casals.
It is important to point out that the current management of the Government of President Luis Abinader has been promoting a police reform that for years had been demanded by Dominican society, and in that sense, this type of tool with wide trajectory in the international market would come to support the president’s intentions for the benefit of the institutional framework and citizenship.
Rodrigo Cruz, Axon’s representative for the Caribbean region, The importance of the use of tasers and body cameras by police officers when presenting themselves in any eventuality.
“Today’s taser is very different from 20 years ago. It has proven medical safety, with more than 2 million uses worldwide. Recently the last training in the city of Panama. We shot 5,800 police units, people with all types of health, including hypertensives, diabetics, etc. It is an extremely healthy product that has supported police action, it is a product to save lives” Cruz.
He added that when the police officer uses the camera on his chest, the citizen behaves extraordinarily and the police officer becomes a unit of professional action.
“Every time that citizens see a They put the camera on the policeman’s chest and they know he’s on. being recorded they behave extraordinarily and the balance works also for the other side. Whereas when the police unit knows that everything that is doing is recorded, it becomes a professional unit & rdquo ;, indicated. Axon’s representative for the Caribbean region.