Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille met police officers from Kenya in preparation for the peace restoration mission in the Carribean nation.
During the Wednesday, June 26, meeting, Conille explained that they were preparing for the deployment of the Kenyan police officers in the following days.
Additionally, he said that to restore order in the troubled nation, they will use a strategy where they move house to house, and from one neighborhood to the next.
However, no one except high-ranking officials are aware of their assignment, which have been kept that way for security reasons.
“The Haitian strategy is to restore security house by house, neighborhood by neighborhood, town by town,” said Conille.
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Experts Express Doubt About Success of Kenyan Police
At the same time, speaking to Africa News, the assistant professor of government at New York’s Cornell University Sabrina Karim, opined that the Kenyan Police had to prove itself.
The assistant professor said that the police will have to gain the trust of the public and be accountable.
According to Karim, the ongoing protests in the country were not handled well by Kenyan police and it may have changed the perspective of the global audience.
“It’s a very tricky mandate that requires experience and strong local knowledge, the accountability piece is really important.
“That ultimately decides whether the Haiti public is going to accept the mission or not. The track record isn’t great for the Kenyan police either. All eyes are on the Kenyan police to demonstrate that they can do better,” Karim said.
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Kenyan Police Land in Haiti
The first contingent of 400 troops of Kenyan police arrived in the Haitian capital on Tuesday, June 25.
However, pressure has piled on the crew including from US congressmen who have called on Biden to explain how Kenyan police officers would restore peace in Haiti.
This especially followed reports of how they treated protestors during the recent anti-Finance Bill protests.
“Concern that Kenya would not have enough domestic security officers was one of the primary reasons we were opposed to the President Joe Biden administration’s plan to send Kenyan police to Haiti,” a dispatch to Biden read in part.
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