{"id":15493,"date":"2024-07-01T09:58:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T09:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=15493"},"modified":"2024-07-01T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T09:58:24","slug":"nps-dismisses-reports-of-kenyan-police-deaths-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=15493","title":{"rendered":"NPS Dismisses Reports of Kenyan Police Deaths in Haiti."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/unnamed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/unnamed-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/unnamed-1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 750px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Police Service (NPS) has dismissed reports that some of its officers deployed to Haiti on a U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission have been killed. This follows online claims that seven officers had been killed in the war-torn Caribbean nation as armed gangs increased pressure on the deployed troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An image widely circulated over the weekend showed a recent photo of Kenyan police patrolling a street in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, with text alleging that the officers had been reported dead. The text read, \u201c7 Kenya police reported dead in Haiti aki [President William Ruto] God will never forgive you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday morning, NPS termed the image as fake. The police service did not provide further information about the mission or the state of the Kenyan troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first batch of about 400 Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti on June 25. Kenyan President William Ruto had ceremonially seen the police off a day earlier in Nairobi, describing it as a &#8220;historic&#8221; mission of solidarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Police Service (NPS) has dismissed reports that some of its officers deployed to Haiti on a U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission have been killed. This follows online claims that seven officers had been killed in the war-torn Caribbean nation as armed gangs increased pressure on the deployed troops. An image widely circulated over the weekend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/unnamed-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15495,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493\/revisions\/15495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}