Its main function is to protect the Dominican nation, enforce the law by constitutional mandate to maintain and guarantee the necessary conditions for public freedoms and rights and to ensure peaceful cohabitation among the population.

The national police force itself (as the agency it is today) is not officially formed until March 2, 1936, with the congressional passing of decree No.

014-2004 gave the academy the name the "National School of Public Safety" whose motto remains to this day "Education-Discipline-Protection.

[citation needed] General Order No 47 created the Homicide division in January 1941 and was called the " Identification and Investigation" unit.

The Unit is responsible for investigating not only homicides and murders but also all incidents of suicide, gunshot wounds and all deaths of unknown causes in Dominican Republic.