P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 668e
A ninety (90)-day period is hereby established for the Office of Pretrial Services (OPS), the Puerto Rico Police, and the Women’s Advocate Office, in collaboration with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Justice, to draft, approve, and adopt a work procedure or operational protocol whereby the responsibilities of each agency with respect to the implementation and purposes of this chapter are established. It is provided further, that the abovementioned protocol shall include, among others, those factors requiring interagency coordination:
(1) An electronic monitoring system that shall place up to three (3) calls to the alleged offender before law enforcement officials intervene, when it detects that, presumably, the conditions imposed have been breached;
(2) the procedure to be followed in the event that, presumably, the conditions imposed have been breached, to alert the affected person without unnecessary delay, and
(3) that government authorities shall provide the victim adequate protection wherever he/she is and according to his/her particular situation.
History —Sept. 18, 2009, No. 99, § 8.