A NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE AND AN INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
(Haiti Libre) -
Senator Youri Latortue explained that the weakness of Haiti is due to the absence of two of the three entities essential to security in Haiti; A national security force and an Intelligence Agency. Regarding the police, he refuses to describe it as a professional police for various reasons.
"...Haiti is very weak, and when you are in a transitional government as at present, the country becomes weaker. The security structure is based on three entities that there are not in the country; an intelligence service, a national security force and a professional police force.
Currently we have a police force, that I can not qualify as professional. Perhaps the police officers know how to react according to their training, but they have no equipment or not all the equipment that they should have. Their wages are not decent and the staffing is insufficient.
You have the Minustah, which due to a series of rules of engagement, does not help the police as it should. So with a weak structure, and a lack of government leadership, there are people who think that they can do what they want.
The solution is a phased withdrawal of the Minustah, the creation of another security force [defense] and a general national system of intelligence in the country. [...] It is necessary that the solution is structural [...] Today we are in a situation where there are no results, because the system which is in place does not allow to have a rapid reaction of the police [...]"
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