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The National Police Service (NPS) has said the Kenya security mission in Haiti has bore fruit after securing key areas from the gangs.

Kenya, backed by the United States and the United Nations, deployed its police in the Caribbean country to restore peace, and according to the NPS, some groundbreaking achievements have been registered so far.

“The Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission team comprising the National Police Service Officers and the Haiti National Police (HNP) has continued to register success as they combat gang activities and restore security in Haiti.

“The MSS team recaptured Auorite Portuaire Nationale (APN) port from gangs. As part of the team’s effort to provide security for critical infrastructural sites and transit locations, the MSS has made significant strides in patrolling and clearing road blockades that had been erected along the road leading to the gang-ridden town of Ganthier,” a statement posted on X by NPS on Saturday, July 27, read.

The NPS further said that on Friday, July 26, 2024, the Head of Haiti Presidential Transition Council Edgard Leblanc Fils paid a visit to MSS Force Commander Godfrey Otunge (SAIG) at the MSS Headquarters and later addressed the MSS team.

The visit by the Haitian leader follows an earlier similar visit on July 19, 2024, by US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

“National Police Service officers in Haiti reiterate its commitment to continue working closely with HNP and the people of Haiti in discharging their mandate to help in the restoration of law and order in Haiti,” NPS added.

The comment by NPS comes after Brian Nichols, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere, who visited Haiti earlier this week, explained the need of the international security mission in Haiti.

“One of the reasons why you have this deployment of the MSS in support of the Haitian national police is so the Haitian national police can take on some of the other jobs.

“The requirement for them to defend vital infrastructure had sort of taken up a large chunk of their forces,” Nichols said, according to the Miami Herald.

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