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Haiti - Security : 205 demonstrations since December, the PNH to the limit of its capacities 09/03/2019 08:31:47
Excerpt from the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in Support of Justice (Minujusth) in Haiti : "The Haitian national police have been increasingly self-sufficient in providing security across the country. The positive performance demonstrated during the recent protests is an indication of the force’s increased capacity and ability to maintain order across the country. However, since December, 38 of 205 demonstrations required mobilization of internal resources beyond the normal operational capacity of police public order units. In addition, to address the rise in criminal gang activity in the third quarter of 2018, the national police developed a strategy of targeted interventions in the Port-au-Prince neighbourhoods of Village de Dieu, La Saline and, more recently, Savanne Pistache. As a result, 4 of 12 larger operations were conducted by the national police with limited support from MINUJUSTH. The national police have also taken over full operational responsibility in the Grand’Anse Department and have increased their capacity over the West Department following the departure of two formed police units during the current period, thus becoming autonomous in 6 of the 10 departments of Haiti, where crowd control units operate without MINUJUSTH support. During a meeting of the steering committee for the national police strategic development plan held in January, donors were informed that 96 of 133 priority actions were under way. However, the draft 2019/20 budget law, providing for a 6.24 per cent allocation to the national police of the overall State budget, will not allow for sustained momentum in implementation. Through an audit conducted by the Superior Court of Audits and Administrative Disputes, the Director-General of the national police removed a number of inactive officers from the payroll, lowering the operational number to 15,051, including nearly 10 per cent women, with a police officer to population ratio of 1.32 per 1,000 inhabitants. The number of police personnel deployed to the departments increased to 35 per cent of the overall police force. Meanwhile, recruitment efforts continue, and 671 cadets, including 142 women, are in the seven-month training programme as part of the thirtieth national police promotion. MINUJUSTH and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) have been working with the police school to develop strategies to increase the number of female candidates. The numbers of women among the ranks still need to rise, both for effectiveness generally, for security sector reform, and for the impact that will have on appropriately addressing gender-based violence crimes. In January, the national police rolled out an officer appraisal system, piloted in 2018. The new performance evaluations will become part of a merit-based promotion system. MINUJUSTH funded a 15-day training on internal audit for the General Inspectorate of the national police and its Finance and Accounting Directorate, to consolidate mechanisms to combat corruption and embezzlement. In order to decentralize its oversight functions beyond Port-au-Prince, the General Inspectorate drafted a proposal for a pilot project to be launched in one of the four departments where this programme will eventually operate. The regional mentoring and advisory programme for senior police managers is being revised to better meet needs in the light of the forthcoming transition of the United Nations presence. The new model makes the transfer of managerial skills and competencies sustainable and to the benefit not only of senior management but also of mid-level personnel and supervisors. The police component of MINUJUSTH continued to conduct training on sexual and gender-based violence for actors of the judicial chain in order to build a common understanding on victims’ care and to share best practices. The community violence reduction project of mobilization against sexual and gender-based violence, benefiting 11,864 people, including 7,635 women, through sensitization workshops in the Artibonite, Grand’Anse and South departments was completed. An ad hoc task force was established in each department to bring together State and non-State representatives involved in the judicial processing of cases of sexual and gender-based violence and to identify bottlenecks and possible solutions." HL/ HaitiLibre
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