page_title: Francisco Domínguez Brito
section_title: Attorney General of the Republic (2004–2006)
hierarchical_section_title: Francisco Domínguez Brito / Public service / Attorney General of the Republic (2004–2006)
caption_attribution_description: Español: Francisco Domínguez Brito recibe a Leonel Fernández en la inauguración del Palacio de Justicia de Santo Domingo, 5 de enero de 2005.
context_page_description: Francisco Javier Tadeo Domínguez Brito is a Dominican lawyer and politician.
  He has been Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Minister of Labor, Senator, Attorney General and District Attorney of the National District. In Congress he stood out for being the senator with more laws passed in the 2006–2010 four-year period; made significant contributions to the Constitution of the Republic proclaimed in the year 2010 and received wide acceptance for managing a vast cultural and educational agenda in favor of its province Santiago. As Prosecutor of the National District and Attorney General of the Republic he pursued and obtained significant convictions in crimes that moved Dominican society in the last decades of 20th century and promoted an institutionalization program for criminal and prison prosecution systems.
  He is a member of the Central Committee of the Dominican Liberation Party.
context_section_description: On August 16 of the year 2004, by presidential decree 861-04 the President of the Republic Dr. Leonel Fernández Reyna appointed Francisco Domínguez Brito as Attorney General of the Republic. When he took office, he was barely 38 years old and thus became the Attorney General of the Republic youngest of the Contemporary history. Then he declared that his administration would be based on the sacred commitment to honor the truth, respect due process and guarantee constitutionally protected rights for all Dominicans and Dominicans.
   'The institutional challenge' . By assuming Prosecutor a strategic plan was developed based on the analysis of the challenges presented to the Public Prosecutor's Office the New Criminal Procedure Code (approved two years earlier), the implementation of the Statute of the Public Ministry (approved a year earlier), its interrelation with the other entities of the Justice System and society. To respond effectively to the new procedural order, the Public Ministry was oriented to establish the necessary units and units to guarantee better treatment and technical and scientific specialization. He received an institutional budget of 654 million Dominican pesos (approximately US$18 million).
  Training and qualification. Aware that the task of theoretically adapting the Public Prosecutor's Office for a new procedural scheme and the necessary implementation of the prosecutors' career was monumental, Dominguez decided to address both issues simultaneously. The initial training of candidates for career prosecutors on the one hand and the training of current prosecutors on the other through the 'Extraordinary Training Programs' was carried out through the new National School of Public Prosecution (ENP). The first promotions of career prosecutors were incorporated as of the year 2006.
   'Administration of resources and priorities' . Adapting technically and providing appropriate technological resources to the Public Ministry needed a considerable budgetary boost, so Francisco Domínguez managed to allocate for the year 2005 double that of the previous year (reaching 1,100 million Dominican pesos ). Due to the marked deterioration and the deplorable conditions that it presented, the transformation of the prison system was promoted through the accelerated conversion of prison facilities to the so-called "new prison model". In the first stage, 9 of the 35 prisons in the country were incorporated into the new model. When the Office of the Prosecutor assumed the country's prison system, it barely received 16% (110 million Dominican pesos) of the institution's total budget; by 2006 after two years of prioritization, spending had increased to 34% (509 million Dominican pesos).
  The technification of the criminal investigation needed to be institutionalized, and on several occasions, Domínguez advocated the creation of judicial technical police. During this period, the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF).
   'Interinstitutional cooperation and transparency' . As Attorney he was appointed a member of the Technical Unit of the National Commission of Ethics and Fight against Corruption (CNECC). From here, they promoted important initiatives related to the regulation of the state procurement and contracting regime, first through a Presidential decree and then through the bill that would later govern the matter. Public ethics commissions were also created and programs for the promotion and promotion of the principles established in the Code of Ethics of the Public Servant (Law 120-01) were established.
   'The new institutionality in the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic. Under this management were created:  '
  the Office of Attention to Victims; the Criminal Information System (SIC); the Unit of the Public Ministry anti Money Laundering;
  Neighborhood or community prosecutors, implementing alternative dispute resolution, to offer quick access to justice, contributing to the discharge of cases, social peace and alleviating the work overload that previously characterized the old system inquisitorial;
  Specia
caption: 'Francisco Domínguez Brito' , greets Dominican President upon his arrival at the headquarters of the Attorney General's Office January 5, 2005.
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