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El gobernador viajará hoy a Miami


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The governor will travel today to Miami
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García Padilla returns to the Island today (Archive)
Alejandro Garcia Padilla Governor today travel to Miami to participate in a private political activity by the U.S. President, Barack Obama, was reported in a press release today.
The Secretary of State, David Bernier will serve as acting governor for the hours you are out Garcia Padilla, who return tonight to Puerto Rico.
According to the press release, this trip will not be paid for with public funds.
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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Hector Pesquera resigns as State Police superintendent - 10.31.13 - James Tuller nuevo superintendente de la Policía | Washington Post ties PR ills to status, but says fiscal fixes priority

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Pesquera resigns as PR’s top cop at onset of long, costly police reform

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Puerto Rico Police Superintendent Héctor Pesquera has resigned abruptly and will leave the post within two weeks.
His unanticipated exit comes at the dawn of a long and deep process to remake the problem-plagued Police Department under a federally required reform that will be overseen by an outside monitor. It is expected to stretch to a decade and require tens of millions of dollars in additional investment in the Police Department.
Pesquera reportedly did not explain his reasons for leaving in his resignation letter to La Fortaleza, which was quickly accepted by Gov. Alejandro García Padilla.
“I acknowledge the time and performance that Héctor Pesquera put in during these past months and wish him success in his future endeavors,” García Padilla said in a statement late Wednesday. “In the coming days I will announce who will take the post to continue the plans we have put in place to fight crime and make our streets safer.”
Pesquera, a holdover from the previous Fortuño administration, thanked the governor for his trust and praised the rank-and-file officers that make up the second-largest police department in the U.S.
“Wherever I am I will do what I can to help make Puerto Rico a safer place,” Pesquera said in the same statement issued by La Fortaleza.
Pesquera’s resignation came a day after federal and local officials announced the designation of U.S. Marshal Juan Mattos as technical compliance adviser (TCA) to oversee a sweeping reform of the island Police Department required in a recent settlement with between the commonwealth government and the U.S. Department of Justice. U.S. District Judge Gustavo Gelpi quickly signed off on the appointment of the Puerto Rico-born Mattos, who served nearly four decades in the New Jersey State Police before being tapped by Obama for the post of U.S. Marshal in that state.
Pesquera said Thursday that the reasons for his resignation were personal and not related to the appointment of the compliance monitor.
“They are personal. It wouldn’t be appropriate to talk about the reasons I resigned, but they are valid reasons,” he said in a radio interview.
He signaled that the timing of his exit as the monitor was named was a coincidence, saying that “appearances can be misleading.”
“It didn’t have anything to do with the announcement of the TCA,” Pesquera said.
The outgoing police chief indicated that he plans to move back to Miami, but is apparently not planning to go back to work as security chief for the Port of Miami.
“I don’t think so. I resigned from that post,c he said. “I’m not thinking about working right now.”
Asked what advice he would have for any incoming police chief, Pesquera said: “Stay away from politics, politics, politics.”
In July, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and García Padilla sealed a sweeping civil rights agreement to modernize and reform the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) that resolves a civil suit initiated by the federal government in December 2012 to remedy a pattern and practice of police misconduct.
Pesquera’s unexpected resignation followed an even bigger surprise in late August when he announced he would stay on as Puerto Rico’s top cop despite signs he would step down over differences with the García Padilla administration.
Pesquera is the highest paid agency chief on the island with a total pay and benefits package topping $283,000 that includes $144,542 in salary. That had drawn criticism from García Padilla, members of his Popular Democratic Party administration and majority lawmakers.
Pesquera, the former head of the FBI office in Puerto Rico was tapped by Gov. Luis Fortuño to take the reins of the Police Department in late March 2012, replacing Emilio Díaz Colón. He had been serving as chief of security for the Port of Miami and was contracted on loan from the Miami-Dade County government for a one-year deal that ended March 31. He had remained under one-month contracts since, with the latest inked on July 31.
Pesquera enjoyed broad public support in Puerto Rico and federal authorities appeared to be in his corner. The governor has credited him with helping drive down Type I crimes (homicides, robberies, assaults, etc.). The chief has also plugged leaks that have hurt investigations in the past and has given his top brass more leeway in forging their own anti-crime strategies around the island without clearing every move through headquarters in San Juan.
There had been speculation that Pesquera could leave the Cabinet post to take on the role of a federal monitor tasked with overseeing the reforms required in a wide-ranging settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice last month over civil rights, corruption and organizational issues within the Police Department. Mattos was tapped for that post this week.
Implementing those reforms will be key on any new police chief’s agenda moving forward.
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 WOW! Garcia Padilla has picked a NYPD deputy chief as the new State Police superintendent. James Tuller Cintron commands the NYPD Transit Division and joined the department in 1973.

Very surprising, I felt for sure that the next superintendent would come up from the ranks.
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High-ranking New York City Police Department official James Tuller Cintrón has been tapped to head Puerto Rico’s Police Department.
Tuller, chief of the NYPD’s Transportation Bureau, has been a police officer in the Big Apple for 40 years.
His appointment as superintendent of Puerto Rico’s Police Department, the second largest in the nation behind the NYPD, was announced by Gov. Alejandro García Padilla at a press conference in San Juan on Monday afternoon.
“I’m Puerto Rican and I’m a police offer,” Tuller said at La Fortaleza. “Today I achieved my dream of returning to my homeland.”
Tuller holds a bacehelor’s degree in police science from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and a master’s in public administration degree from Marist College. He is also a graduate of the FBI National Academy and attended the University of Virginia’s Division of Education Program in Criminal Justice.
Tuller, whose mother is Puerto Rican, was born and raised in New York and attended high school in Puerto Rico.
“I am convinced that his experience working with communities in a city as diverse as New York during the transformation of the NYPD makes him the ideal person for the police superintendent post,” García Padilla said. “He is aware of the challanges ahead in boosting police morale and complying with the federal accord to professionalize the department and safeguard civil rights while continuing with our anti-crime plan.”
Tuller takes over from Héctor Pesquera, who resigned unexpectedly last week. Pesquera is leaving Nov. 15 and Tuller starts his new job Dec. 1.
“I reiterate that I will do whatever I can for Puerto Rico wherever I am,” Pesquera said Monday. “I leave with more admiration and respect for the members of the Police Department than when I came in.”
Pesquera’s resignation came a day after federal and local officials announced the designation of U.S. Marshal Juan Mattos as technical compliance adviser (TCA) to oversee a sweeping reform of the island Police Department required in a recent settlement between the commonwealth government and the U.S. Department of Justice.
In July, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and García Padilla sealed a sweeping civil rights agreement to modernize and reform the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) that resolves a civil suit initiated by the federal government in December 2012 to remedy a pattern and practice of police misconduct.
Implementing those reforms will be key on Tuller’s agenda moving forward.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico November 5, 2013 (AP)

Puerto Rico is turning to a New York official to lead its troubled police department.
James Tuller Cintron has been selected to be the next superintendent of police by Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla. Tuller is chief of the transportation bureau for the New York Police Department.
The governor introduced Tuller at a news conference Monday in San Juan. Tuller was born in New York but lived in Puerto Rico as a child. He has had a long law enforcement career in New York.
Tuller starts his new job Dec. 1. He replaces Hector Pesquera, a former FBI official who announced his resignation on Thursday after less than two years on the job. Puerto Rico's police force is struggling with low morale, high crime and federally mandated reforms.
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San Juan, Nov 6 (Prensa Latina) The US Government has kept control of the Puerto Rican police, although it has let its citizens down in security issues, the Hostosian National Independence Movement (MINH) denounced today.
MINH President Hector Pesquera Sevillano considered that appointment of new Police Chief James Tuller Cintron is "the continuity of the taking of the Puerto Rican Police by the US Government."

The pro-independence leader asserted that the answer to the problems of criminality in the country is reducing social inequality, changing colonial education and improve employment opportunities.

"If we really want to reduce criminality and street violence, we also need officials committed to their own country and not alienated from its people, and the Government of the United States can not do that, because it has let its people down regarding public safety," said Pesquera Sevillano.

He said that since the appointment of former FBI agent Pedro Toledo as chief of the Puerto Rican Police in the 90's, the US Government has been taking control of the police forces, in its efforts to continue a regime of repression against people.

Recently appointed Police Chief Tuller Cintron, a New Yorker of Puerto Rican origin, was trained in the National FBI Academy after finishing his duties as Director of the Transportation Department of the New York Police Department.

Faced with this fact, the MINH leader considered that the new police chief does not know the idiosyncrasy of the island's police, and is not aware of the tragedy that Puerto Rico lives, shackled under the yoke that being a colony entails.

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Agencia EFEOctober 31, 2013 20:17

Surprise resignation of Puerto Rico police chief

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San Juan, Oct 31 (EFE).- The Puerto Rican political sphere reacted Thursday with surprise to the resignation of police chief Hector Pesquera, a move that coincides with the naming of the supervisor to oversee the reform of the island's security forces.
The resignation of Pesquera, who was named to the post in 2012 by then-Gov. Luis Fortuño when crime on the island was at an historic high, comes at a delicate moment for the Puerto Rico Police Department.
The second-largest police department in the United States is finding itself unable to halt the crime wave linked to drug trafficking and is facing a reform process demanded by the federal Justice Department to do away with corruption and the violation of civil rights on the part of some officers.
Secretary of State David Bernier acknowledged Thursday that Pesquera's resignation took him by surprise and he noted that recently he and the chief participated in a meeting with the U.S. Marshal for the District of New Jersey, Juan Mattos Jr., named to oversee the reform of the 18,000-member PRPD.
The nomination was ratified by a federal judge on Wednesday, hours before Pesquera announced he was stepping down.
Pesquera, the FBI chief in Puerto Rico in the 1990s, took over the police force in March 2012 amid controversy over his $283,000 annual salary and with the challenge of reducing a crime wave that in 2011 had resulted in a record 1,136 homicides.
At the beginning of 2013, new Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla expressed his confidence in Pesquera and congratulated him on the drop in crime, given that in 2012 the island experienced "only" 967 murders.
Pesquera told a news conference Thursday that his decision to step down had nothing to do with the naming of Mattos.
"They are personal reasons. It would not be appropriate to talk about the reasons for which I'm resigning, but they are valid reasons," he said.
The U.S. Justice Department sued the PRPD in 2012 over the disproportionate use of force and other abuses.
Plaguing the police force have been unprofessional practices as well as corruption that became evident in October 2012, when the FBI arrested 133 Puerto Rican cops and public officials on suspicion of colluding with drug traffickers.
The Puerto Rican government has announced that it will name a replacement for Pesquera before he leaves his post on Nov. 15.
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