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National Police owes widow 2.8 million pesos for non-compliance
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic /Crime & Justice

National Police owes widow 2.8 million pesos for non-compliance

From Diario Libre · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • The National Police in the Dominican Republic owes 2.8 million pesos to a widow due to non-compliance with a court order.
  • The debt stems from the police failing to execute a previous ruling that would have adjusted the pension of the widow's late husband, a brigadier general.
  • This non-compliance led to daily fines, accumulating to the current debt, with further legal action taken by the widow.

The Dominican National Police faces a significant debt of 2.8 million pesos owed to the widow of a brigadier general, Dulce María Lora Solís. This financial obligation arises from the police's persistent failure to comply with a prior court ruling. The initial ruling, issued by the Constitutional Court (TC) in 2022, mandated the police to recognize the late general's rank and adjust his pension retroactively from March 2007 to September 2019. The police's delay in executing this decision resulted in daily fines, known as astreintes, being imposed.

Lora Solís, whose husband passed away in 2020, initiated legal proceedings after the police did not implement the pension adjustment. The Constitutional Court had ordered the police to pay 5,000 pesos for each day of delay after a one-month grace period. When the police failed to fully comply, the widow returned to the TC to seek a recalculation of the fines for the extended period of non-compliance. This led to the recent ruling, which imposes an additional 2.8 million pesos payment for the days between July 2024 and January 2026.

The police body must pay the lady an additional 2,845,000 pesos.

— Constitutional CourtThe context is the final ruling by the Constitutional Court ordering the National Police to pay the widow.

The situation highlights a pattern of non-compliance with judicial orders within the National Police. The current debt is a consequence of the institution's failure to adhere to a previous sanction, which itself was a penalty for not fulfilling an earlier economic obligation. The TC deemed the police's continued non-compliance "unjustified," underscoring the legal and financial repercussions faced by the institution for its delays.

The police body must pay the lady an additional 2,845,000 pesos.

— Constitutional CourtThe context is the final ruling by the Constitutional Court ordering the National Police to pay the widow.
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Originally published by Diario Libre in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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