Monday, December 19, 2011

ARTICLE - OPERATION NOEL - UPDATE

UPDATE ON "OPERATION NOEL 2011"
(Haiti Libre) -

At the weekly press briefing of Minustah, the spokesman for the mission, Raymond Lamarre gave an update on Operation Noël 2011 which began November 28 and ends January 7, 2012 and which aims to secure, among others, different neighborhoods of the metropolitan area, to allow people to go about their business and also take pleasure in this end of the year time.

"Between November 28 and December 11, 1,959 United Nations police officers have supported 1,742 members of the Police Nationale d'Haiti (PNH) and have participated in 30 road checkpoints in Port-au-Prince. A total of 10,897 cars, 5,289 trucks and 10,781 motorcycles have been checked. The inspection resulted in the seizure of eight motorcycles, a pistol and the arrest of 18 individuals."

For his part, Gary Desrosiers, the deputy spokesman of the National Police of Haiti (PNH) stated that as part of Operation Noël 2011 "for the month of November to the current date we have treated 1,200 cases, and we have made 1,180 arrests across the departments [...] in the West Department from the month of November until now, there has been 118 arrests and 62 persons detained for criminal acts. We have also recorded 181 victims [...] the police captured 18 escapees, and they were returned to the National Penitentiary..."

Mr. Desrosiers also announced that a workforce of 300 additional police officers will be added to the 1,000 already mobilized in the metropolitan area.

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