Michel-Ange Gédéon, Director of Department West (DDO) of the Police Nationale d'Haiti (PNH) has proceeded Saturday to the installation of a new head to the Police Station of Port-au-Prince. The Commissioner Alain Auguste replaces the Divisional Inspector Joseph Dupont who held this position.

In his speech for the occasion, during the installation of the new Commissioner, the Director of the West, declared "...the jurisdiction of Port-au-Prince is a very important jurisdiction in the department, not to say that it is the jurisdiction that has the most challenges. There was a vacancy that we had to fill... We therefore proposed the Commissioner Alain Auguste to fill this position and the Command of the PNH has endorsed our choice, yesterday evening [Friday] [...]

Today we have the Commissioner Alain Auguste which has just take the direction of the Police Station of Port-au-Prince, a commissioner that we know well, He first worked in Jacmel, and then in Léogâne, we felt that he could be very useful at the level of the Departmental Direction [...]

As I said before, Port-au-Prince is a jurisdiction that is very very difficult, but we do not doubt the capacity of the new Commissioner to address the challenges ahead. We tell him welcome [...] good luck and success in the actions that he will do in the department.

We ask all the police officers, from the smallest to the highest rank, to give their full contribution to the new head. We ask to all responsible of sub-police station, to support the Commissioner Alain Auguste in the difficult tasks ahead. People expect a lot from him, Command expects many results from him [...] Commissioner Alain, we rely on you, you can count on us... we can say you that we are ready to bring you all the support you could want, to facilitate your success and your success at the head of the Police Station of Port-au-Prince."

The new Commissioner Alain Auguste thanked the DDO for having chosen him, saying that he could rely on him "[...] I guarantee that our work will always continue, because we all have only one motto which is to Serve and Protect..."

S/ HaitiLibre