In an effort to guarantee security during Holy Week 2025, the Ministry of the Interior and Police and the Civil Defense presented the “Preventive Articulation Tables” in Boca Chica. This national strategy integrates four lines of action to reduce incidents, with an emphasis on traffic accidents, emergencies, and crowd control.
The work begins next week, alternately, with intervention in four provinces. Points selected for their location in the main road corridors are Peravia-Sánchez highway on Tuesday, 8; La Vega–Duarte highway on Wednesday, 9; La Romana—Eastern Highway on Thursday, 10; and Monte Plata—Northeast highway crossing on Friday, 11.
During the activity on the beach of Boca Chica, the Minister of Interior and Police, Faride Raful, specified that the objective is to analyze the situation of the demarcations to identify the critical points, define the specific interventions according to the reality of each area, and articulate the operations between the relief and security entities to guarantee protection.
He explained that it is an early mass alert for Holy Week, a time of great tourist movement and internal displacement.
The official highlighted the will and commitment of the Civil Defense members, who work voluntarily for the benefit of citizens. During the Holy Week operation, 10,800 members will be in service in 868 aid posts.
He said that the security measures include a QR code that indicates suitable and restricted resorts, the waves of the season, the weather, and preventive work on roads, highways, and streets, with the indispensable collaboration of citizens.
Faride announced that during this holiday, they will take measures that emphasize those of other years, such as the agglomeration of people at parties, to avoid a lack of control so that the population enjoys without exposing themselves to factors that trigger violence and social conflicts.
He appealed to the citizens’ conscience for a time of reflection and family reunion without human or material losses.
“The movement on the roads will be under the supervision of all of us, who through the road safety force are meeting every week to deter speed, the Digesett in its role of inspection of breathalyzers, the call for people not to drive motor vehicles under the influence of alcohol so as not to cause accidents, the use of radars and all the mechanisms we have to provide the level of assistance that we expect to be minimal, because the projection of Holy Week is that we will have peaks in accidents, which on this occasion we do not want to have,” said the minister.
For his part, Juan Salas, the director of Civil Defense, emphasized the importance of strengthening territorial governance and inter-institutional articulation, with structured spaces for operational planning to save lives, within the Government’s commitment.
He explained that the use of the QR code will guarantee safety for those who travel, with the response institutions acting at an opportune time.
“This implies accompaniment on the road, in those places that have decided to spend that moment and for this a government, as established by the President of the Republic, is very clear that a correct prevention strategy, in this case of articulation, will be the route to guarantee saving lives,” Salas stressed.
The presentation of this strategy was attended by the director of the National Police, Major General Ramón Antonio Guzmán Peralta; the Deputy Minister of Preventive Security in Vulnerable Sectors, Chandrai Estévez; the director of the Tourist Police (Politur), General Minoru Matsunaga; the governor of Santo Domingo, Lucrecia Leyba, and other authorities.
