Appendix I

U.S. and Other Donors' Assistance to the 

Haitian Police, Fiscal Years 1995 2001

Initially, the program's activities involved helping Haiti (1) remove the 

police from the control of the Haitian armed forces; (2) develop and 

implement a basic training program for former members of the military 

who had been cleared to perform functions as an interim police force; and 

(3) recruit, train, and deploy U.N. police monitors to work with this force. 

While working with the Haitian government and the United Nations to form 

this interim police force, the program also assisted in developing a new, 

professional civilian police force the Haitian National Police.

To assist in the formation of the new police force, the International 

Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program supported recruiting, 

training, and deploying about 6,500 police officers and establishing a police 

academy and various other police facilities. Also, the program conducted 

specialized training and provided equipment and supplies for special police 

units, including the antinarcotics unit, the crowd control unit, the forensics 

unit, the judicial police, the operations center, the special investigations 

unit, and the special weapons and tactics unit. In addition, the program 

provided the new police force with equipment, such as vehicles, 

photocopiers, forensic devices, and radios. Moreover, the program helped 

the Haitian police develop management and administrative capabilities and 

establish new policies and procedures.

Over the last year, the program helped to install a nationwide police radio 

network, develop and implement a uniform inventory system of material 

and human resources, conduct an assessment of the police's Personnel 

Directorate, provide training and equipment to the new forensics unit, and 

conduct 34 police training courses. In addition to this assistance, the 

program provided about $9,000 a month in assistance to operate and 

maintain the generators that supply electricity

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 to the police academy, 

which also houses some of the special police units. At the end of July 2000, 

as noted previously, the program's assistance to the Haitian police stopped 

because of congressional concerns related to events surrounding the May 

2000 Haitian parliamentary and local elections.

Other U.S. Agencies' 

U.S. law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. 

Aid

Drug Enforcement Administration, and the U.S. Customs Service, have also 

provided assistance to build the Haitian police.

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 The supply of electricity is sporadic in Haiti, making generators necessary for a regular 

source.

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