iciHaiti - FLASH : Almost 13,000 police officers and military deployed for elections
At the beginning of the week Michel-Ange Gédéon, the Director General of the National Police of Haiti (PNH), the Lieutenant-General Ajax Porto Pinheiro, Commander of the Military Force of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (Minustah) and the Commissioner of Police, Commander of the UN Police Component (UNPol), the General of Brigade Georges-Pierre Monchotte, signed the integrated security plan for the elections of Sunday 20 November 2016.
No less than 9,400 police officers of the Haitian National Police (PNH) will be mobilized to ensure security during the election day with sustained attention in areas with the reputation of register unrest during elections. Approximately 2,000 UNPol police officers and 1.500 soldiers from the Minustah will be mobilized in support of the Haitian police and ready to intervene at the request of the PNH.
