Haiti - Security : Operation Village de Dieu, relative success of the PNH...
Monday, 48 hours after the major police operation at Village de Dieu in the South of the Capital https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26025-haiti-notice-2-million-bonus-for-the-capture-of-the-dangerous-gang-leader-arnel.html , Michel-Ange Louis-Jeune the spokesperson of the National Police of Haiti (PNH) rejects the critics according to which the police operation of Saturday, November 3 in Village de Dieu was a failure "Nobody can speak of failure as a result of the operation carried out by the PNH in the village de Dieu last Saturday" underlining that during this operation, 80 people had been arrested, 100 houses searched whose residence of Gang Leader Arnel Joseph where 3 motorcycles were seized, giving the guarantee that the police will manage to capture Arnel Joseph who is the subject of a premium of 2 million Gourdes for his capture.
Note that no weapons seizures were mentioned in this report. However, in this regard he said that the PNH investigated the source of supply of gangs that hold powerful weapons of war and the sources that finance them.
The spokesman said he was satisfied with the operation, pointing out that many thought that the PNH could never invest the Arnel territory, saying that the police will gradually take control of areas designated as lawless South of the capital.
A success that does not share Pierre Espérance, the Coordinator of the National Network of Human Rights Defenses (RNDDH), which sees rather a failure, recalling on the radio of the capital that neither Arnel nor any of his men are not among those arrested. He stressed that Arnel and his accomplices informed of the police operation, had time to leave the premises and take shelter. He believes that the police must better prepare their interventions and have a real intelligence service, recalling that all gangs have a network of effective informants including at least one police officer...
