The Ottawa ambassador in Port-au-Prince, Sébastien Carrière, specified on Twitter that these are three devices that are more resistant to mines and better against ambushes.
He added that this is the third such tranche being carried out by the northern country to bolster law enforcement officials in their mission to restore security.
In addition to the armored vehicles, Canada will deploy two Royal Canadian Navy military vessels in the coming days to help improve the security situation in Haiti’s territorial waters and improve the police’s ability to monitor gang movements.
According to Carrière, the gangs use Port-au-Prince Bay to transport members of the group as well as hostages, goods and drugs, and the presence of vessels equipped for coastal surveillance can disrupt these activities.
Likewise, Canada sanctioned 19 members of the political and business class, including two past presidents, an equal number of former lawmakers, former congressmen, former senators and members of the private sector.
For his part, Prime Minister Ariel Henry is pushing for foreign troops to be sent in to help the police fight the gangs, but his requests have gone unanswered at the moment.
Haiti is seeing a surge in armed violence from gangs that control about 60 percent of the capital while law enforcement is discouraged and understaffed.
So far this year, more than a hundred people have been kidnapped and dozens killed, including at least 11 police officers.
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