5 notorious drug traffickers, 3 Haitians and two Jamaican nationals known by the police, were arrested respectively in Les Cayes and l'Ile à Vache (South) on 6 and 7 December as part of a joint operation of two days, conducted by the National Police of Haiti (PNH) and Minustah forces within the operation "Milano".

"By increasing our maritime presence in the south of Haiti within this type of operations, we want to discourage any expansion of drug trafficking in Les Cayes and Ile-a-Vache," explained Frigate Captain Daniel Di Bono, Maritime Uruguayan contingent commander of the Minustah, at the end of the operation combining significant resources, land, sea and air.

After over three months of preparation, this operation involved the deployment of 40 police officers from the Haitian Brigade of Fight against Drugs Trafficking (BLTS), accompanied by 9 police officers anti-drug (UNPOL), near 90 agents of Formed Police Units of Sri Lanka and Senegal, 30 sailors Uruguayan of the Minustah. More than 25 vehicles, 6 boats and a helicopter were used in this operation which was conducted smoothly, said Roy Bruno, Chief Assistant Operations UN police in Haiti.

HL/ HaiïtiLibre