SAFETY
Safety is always a concern. The project provides guides and staff members to facilitate your work and help ensure safety. But people may still be concerned about safety since this is a new environment to them.
The following is extracted from a listing of country rankings in order of crime per capita.
Mexico 6 (meaning sixth worst in world)
Canada 44
Switzerland 56
Dominican Republic Greater than 62 (list stopped at 62)
The statistical level of serious crime in the Dominican Republic is much less than in the United States.
(Data from the Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime and Operation of Criminal Justice Systems for 1998-2000. Data found at www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri-mur-cap.)
Updated March 7, 2007