Port-au-Prince, October 4 (Prensa Latina) Restoring security and professionalizing the police should be the priorities of the new international mission deployed in Haiti, suggested the Center for Analysis and Research in the Field of Human Rights (Cardh) today before.
The platform, which welcomed the UN Security Council’s positive vote approving the mission, insisted that troops must stop the advance of armed gangs, reopen major roads and secure strategic areas.
Also, conduct large-scale operations to disperse armed groups and liberate hostage-taking areas, ensuring a special security plan for the most vulnerable.
The police must be equipped with the necessary materials and technologies to confront the new gang situation, form anti-gang units and strengthen existing police groups, he emphasized.
He also called for a concrete definition of the mandate of the multinational force and the adoption of measures to address the structural causes of insecurity in the Caribbean state.
Likewise, the Cardh pointed out the need to equip the police with the necessary materials and technologies that will allow them to face the violent situation, create anti-gang units and reinforce the brigades of existing agents.
Last Monday and after a year of waiting, the UN Security Council approved the deployment of a mission to support the Haitian police, requested in October 2022 by the government of Arie Henry.
The mechanism also aims to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance even in areas that are difficult to access due to gang activity.
The mission is funded by contributions from regional organizations and member states, which have called on the United Nations to contribute personnel, equipment and other logistical and financial resources and to prevent arms smuggling into the country to prevent it from reaching gangs.
Kenya, the country that will lead the mission, announced that its troops could be ready for deployment next January, to be joined by Jamaica, the Bahamas and other countries in the region.
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