Appendix I

U.S. and Other Donors' Assistance to the 

Haitian Police, Fiscal Years 1995 2001

The U.S. Coast Guard has provided most of the remaining U.S. assistance to 

the Haitian police force. Specifically, in fiscal years 1996 99, the U.S. Coast 

Guard provided more than $4.6 million in assistance to the Haitian Coast 

Guard, which is part of the Haitian police. The U.S. Coast Guard has 

advised, worked with, and provided technical assistance and equipment to 

the Haitian Coast Guard. The U.S. Coast Guard has assisted the Haitian 

Coast Guard with recruitment, basic maritime law enforcement, 

seamanship training, technical training, organizational development, the 

refurbishment of a base in Port au Prince, the construction of a new base in 

Cap Haitien, and the refurbishment of seized boats and old Haitian vessels.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has seven agents working with 

the Haitian police's antinarcotics unit. These agents, who are divided into 

airport, maritime, and target teams, work on antinarcotics cases and 

provide technical support to their Haitian counterparts.

The U.S. Customs Service trained Haitian police, customs, and port officers 

on narcotics interdiction in fiscal years 1998 to fiscal year 1999. During this 

period, the U.S. Customs Service conducted nine training courses.

Since the end of July 2000, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Drug Enforcement 

Administration have been the only U.S. agencies that have continued to 

work with and provide some assistance to their counterparts within the 

Haitian police.

Other Donors Have 

Canada, France, and the United Nations have also provided assistance to 

Also Provided 

help develop the Haitian police. Canada the second largest international 

donor provided $30 million in assistance to build this police force in fiscal 

Assistance

years 1995 2000. Until mid June 2000, the Royal Canadian Mounted 

Police/Canadian International Development Assistance project had 11 

technical advisors in Haiti. These advisors worked with the Haitian police 

on training and management issues. In July 2000, Canada reduced its 

support to the police and decided to focus most of its future assistance on 

the police academy.

France has provided about $834,000 for technical assistance to the Haitian 

judicial police from late 1997 through 2000. This technical assistance has 

focused on creating a filing system for criminal cases, building a legal 

medical institution to help the judicial police identify a victim's cause of 

death, and creating a search and intervention brigade unit.

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