The Dominican Republic improves border security

Border areas,  and, in particular, busy markets like Dajabón, require close monitoring to prevent illegal activities. 

In Dajabón the municipal government is responsible for managing the market, which is a vital for stimulating trade in the region. To improve the process of controlling the flow of people and goods in this border area between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the MCBS-EU cooperation project, financed by the European Union in the Caribbean and managed by FIIAPP, has organised an activity to improve perimeter and interior security conditions of the customs area and the Dajabón market.  

It is essential to control the flow of people and goods on both sides of the border, ensuring orderly passage, as well as the protection of market usersin terms of guaranteeing the security of citizens, thus facilitating both customs and migratory procedures. 

Ensuring that the Dajabón market has effective control over users and merchandise in its border area will help prevent and combat transnational organised crime, which, in the case of the affected countries, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, involves drug, weapons and human trafficking.