![]() ![]() Salvador also noted that Haiti’s National Police is severely understaffed: “Barely 3,500 police officers are on public safety duty at any given time, nationwide.” That number more than doubled to 1,647 in the same period this year, she said. Salvador said that in the first quarter of 2022, more than 690 criminal incidents that include killings, rapes, kidnappings and lynchings were reported. Security Council has shown no interest in deploying a foreign force, and neither have the U.S. “Gang violence is expanding at an alarming rate in areas previously considered relatively safe in Port-au-Prince and outside the capital,” said special envoy María Isabel Salvador. special envoy for Haiti called for the immediate deployment of a specialized international force that Prime Minister Ariel Henry first requested in October, echoing a similar plea from U.N. ![]() The United Nations estimates that gangs now control 80% of Port-au-Prince as lawlessness has escalated since the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. That is not acceptable,” he said as he also condemned vigilante violence. The gang violence in recent days has injured three police officers and prompted people in Canape Vert and Turgeau to arm themselves with machetes, rocks and bottles to defend their neighborhoods as they set up makeshift checkpoints and blocked entrances with large trucks.ĭesrosiers said he understands people’s anger and frustration over ongoing gang violence. Six other suspected gang members in the nearby neighborhood of Turgeau who allegedly were shot by police were also set on fire Monday. Desrosiers said a limited number of police were on the scene when it happened: “They couldn’t sustain the crowd, and the crowd reacted.”
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