{"id":200445,"date":"2024-07-17T05:42:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T05:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/17\/200-additional-kenyan-police-officers-deployed-to-haiti\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T05:42:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T05:42:22","slug":"200-additional-kenyan-police-officers-deployed-to-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/17\/200-additional-kenyan-police-officers-deployed-to-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"200 Additional Kenyan Police Officers Deployed to Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-315906\" alt=\"\" width=\"995\" height=\"589\"  data-lazy- src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/haiti-1.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-315906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/haiti-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"995\" height=\"589\"  \/>Another 200 Kenyan police officers have left for Haiti under a UN-backed mission to quell rampant gang violence in the troubled Caribbean nation, senior police officers said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This deployment follows the East African nation\u2019s June dispatch of 400 officers to the violence-ravaged Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, as part of a contentious plan to send approximately 1,000 police to help stabilize the country.<\/p>\n<p>President William Ruto, who is grappling with anti-government protests at home, made the promise, which faced persistent legal challenges in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe have 200 police officers who left last night, and they should land in Haiti this morning,\u201d<\/em> one senior police officer told <em>AFP<\/em> on Tuesday. <em>\u201cThey are joining their colleagues who are already on the ground.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another senior police source confirmed that the officers departed on Monday night via a chartered plane, adding, <em>\u201cMore will be departing soon until we have all 1,000 officers there.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The deployment comes two weeks after Kenyan police dismissed rumors that seven officers had been killed in Haiti. The forces deployed had been <em>\u201creceived warmly\u201d<\/em> and were <em>\u201call safe and ready to discharge their clear and specific mandate,\u201d<\/em> police said in a statement on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan officers are <em>\u201cworking closely with their host, the Haitian National Police, and have so far undertaken strategic mapping of the likely areas of operational concerns and conducted several joint patrols within Port-au-Prince,<\/em>\u201d according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, July 8, Haitian police chief Normil Rameau revealed that the Kenyan police had retaken control of the country\u2019s largest public hospital, which gangs had occupied for over four months. 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