A second contingent of Kenyan police officers departed for Haiti on Monday night as part of the United Nations-approved Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission. According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the officers are expected to arrive in Haiti on Tuesday morning.
A senior police officer, speaking to AFP, confirmed that the well-trained group of 200 officers will join their colleagues who are currently patrolling the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital.
“We have 200 police officers who left last night, and they should land in Haiti this morning,” the senior officer involved in the mission told AFP. “They are joining their colleagues who are already on the ground.”
Sources revealed that the team departed on a United Nations chartered flight and were seen off by Deputy Inspector General of the Administration Police Service, Noor Gabow.
This deployment comes less than a month after a similar cohort was sent to the Caribbean nation to help address the gang violence plaguing the country.
The latest deployment follows a request from Haiti’s Interim Prime Minister Garry Conille for more Kenyan officers to be sent to the troubled nation. Former Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome confirmed Conille’s plea during a security briefing at the UN Security Council meeting in early July. Koome also stated that Conille assured his government’s unwavering support for the Kenyan police officers deployed in Haiti.
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