Kenyan police patrol the streets of Port-au-Prince in Haiti on June 28 /HANDOUT
A new team of 600 police officers to
be sent to Haiti graduated on Friday
ahead of their planned deployment
to Haiti for a peacekeeping mission
later this month.
The batch includes an all-female
Special Weapons and Tactics team.
Officials said they had realised
there was need for female officers
to help in handling female suspects
and other gender related cases.
The officers, drawn from General Service Unit, Anti Stock Theft
Unit, Rapid Deployment Unit and
the all-female SWAT are ready to
join the Kenyan-led Multinational
Security Support Mission aimed at
restoring peace in Haiti.
Together with the SWAT team,
these are paramilitary units with
wide combat training.
SWAT is the newest police uniin the country and is from the Administration Police Service.
Insiders say they are some of the
best-trained officers in street urban
combat.
The team, which underwent pre-deployment training,
will join other personnel who are
already on the ground.
Inspector General of Police
Douglas Kanja, on November 8,
officially closed the Multinational
Security Support Mission to Haiti
Course at the National Police College Embakasi ‘A’ Campus.
An assessment team will be sent
to Haiti to give a report before they
are deployed.
The team is among those that
met visiting Haiti Prime Minister
Garry Conille at the Administration Police Training Campus in
Embakasi last month.
This comes as President William
Ruto said he held a telephone conversation with US president-elect Donald Trump over the Mission.
“I congratulated him following
his election as the 47th President
of the United States of America. We
discussed areas of mutual interest
that are of benefit to the citizens of
our two countries, including trade
and investment, security and good
governance,” Ruto said.
“I briefed President Trump on
the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti and
possible areas of cooperation with
the US government on this important conflict resolution initiative.”
Ruto said the mission was improving security in Haiti, calling
the fight against gangs “the battle
that we can win”.
During a visit by the Haitian
Prime Minister to speed up deployments to the force, Ruto said Kenya would provide 600 more police
officers to bolster the international
anti-gang mission.
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