This report covers issues related to human rights violations by the National Police in the Dominican Republic between 2005 and July 2011. During this time, three different chiefs of police were in post: Bernardo Santana Páez (August 2005 to August 2007); Rafael Guillermo Guzmán Fermín (August 2007 to August 2010) and José Armando Polanco Gómez, the current Chief of Police. This period also largely coincides with the two consecutive governments of President Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna who was elected on 16 May 2004 and re-elected on 16 May 2008. The report is based on interviews and research carried out in October 2009, October 2010 and March 2011 in the Dominican Republic. Amnesty International’s delegates visited the capital, Santo Domingo, and the towns of Santiago, Navarrete and San Juan de la Maguana. They interviewed the families of 20 men killed by the police and of four young men who were shot by the police and survived. Delegates also met relatives of other victims of human rights abuses by the police, including the families of two men feared to be victims of enforced disappearance and of several people who alleged that they were tortured in custody.