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Police officer Placide Jean-Louis killed in Champ de Mars

Police officer Placide Jean-Louis killed in Champ de Mars

Here is a picture of Police officer Placide Jean-Louis as he was killed in Champ de Mars.

On Wednesday, February 17, 2016, a Police officer named Placide Jean-Louis was killed with multiple bullet injuries. His body was found near the Museum of Haitian National Pantheon (MUPANAH) on the Champ de Mars. The police man was an Agent IV officer, working in Cite Soleil. According to Garry Desrosiers, the Principal Inspector and Deputy Spokesperson of the National Police of Haiti, the victim was returning from a commercial bank when he was shot several times by two unidentified gunmen who fled on a motorcycle.

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From Seduction to Kidnapping, New strategy by Haitian criminals

From Seduction to Kidnapping, New strategy by Haitian criminals

Haitian criminal can not be accused for lack of creativity. Here is an example where crime moves from seduction to Kidnapping,

Haitian kidnappers have innovated a new trick to deceive citizens for ransom. Some of their accomplices are girls, who seduce boys in the discotheques and propose them to go out with them. When the boys agree, the girls lead them to their accomplice kidnappers. Recently, on February 20, 2016, the Deputy Spokesman of National Police of Haiti Inspector Gary Desrosiers has alerted citizens to remain cautious of this new strategy used by the bandits of kidnapping rings. We might remember that Haiti successfully curbed its kidnapping rate in the early 2014 since the United Nations provided anti-kidnapping support led by Robert Arce, a veteran American cop and law enforcement consultant. Within a tight limited budget and a span of two years, Arce introduced cell phone log exploitation, community policing, and some cultural diplomacy to track criminals. Now, the criminals are innovating new ways to resurface again.

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Alleged kidnapper Clifford Brandt recaptured

Alleged kidnapper Clifford Brandt recaptured

Here is a set of pictures of alleged kidnapper Clifford Brandt who was recaptured by the Dominican Police

On January 28, 2016, during the trial of Chris Brandt Jr, the Judge Me Jean Wilner Morin, after the identification process of the accused and his five other accomplices in the court room [Sawadienne Jean (30), Carlo St-Fort (30), Carline Richemard (30), Pierreval Ricot (39), Saint-Fort Carlo Bendel and Evens Larieux (45)], ordered the suspension of the hearing and announced the resumption of the trial on 15 February, 2016. A dozen of lawyers were present in the courtroom to defend Clifford Brandt, who has been arrested on charges of Kidnapping, illegal restraint against ransom, conspiracy, usurpation of title, death threats, forgery and use of forgeries, illegal possession of firearms and money laundering. The trial was again postponed on February 15, because the accused Chris Brandt was absent in the courtroom.

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Police Officer killed in Martissant

Police Officer killed in Martissant

The period of instability continues in Haiti. A Police Officer was killed in Martissant.

In the early morning on February 12, 2016, a Haitian police officer was killed by multiple gunshots while he was patrolling on a motorcycle in Martissant, 21, a rough section of the country's capital. The PNH has confirmed that the slain officer was an employee of the Directorate of Traffic, named David Dume. He was in uniform, left home for his workplace. There have been no arrests in Friday's killing. As per Haitian National Police spokesman Frantz Lerebours, an investigation is under way. Martissant is a troubled district long known for gang activity.

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Administrative Complex with BEC in Verrettes burned down

Administrative Complex with BEC in Verrettes burned down

Here is a picture of thr Administrative Complex in Verrettes that burned down.

On January 27, 2016, a group of protesters set fire to the Administrative complex of Verrettes. It is a complex where along with several other government offices, the office of BEC (Communal Electoral Offices), a wing of the BED (Bureau Electoral Départemental) is located. BED is a decentralized body of the CEP (Provisional Electoral Council). BED executes the operational plan of CEP through the actions of BEC under its dependence. Verrettes is a commune in the Saint-Marc Arrondissement, in the Artibonite Department. It is an uneventful, peaceful city which had remained unaffected so far by Haiti's political turmoil. The fire was deliberately set by some unknown assailants on the night of January 27th.

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civil prison for women in Cabaret

civil prison for women in Cabaret

Here is a picture of the newly created civil prison for women in Cabaret.

As per the Institute for Criminal Policy Research and MINUSTAH December 2015 statistics, considering an estimated national population of 10.78 million at the end of 2015, Haiti's prison population rate per 100,000 of the national population is 102. Haiti has an official capacity of 2,431 inmates in its prison system of 17 prisons with an occupancy level of 454.4%. The prison population for the December 2015 shows a number of 11,046 detainees and of that percentage, the share of pre-trial detainees and female prisoners are 70.9% and 4.1% respectively. The new prison will replace an outdated Pétion-ville prison with 50 inmate capacity which currently houses 305 prisoners. Moreover, the new prison will protect the privacy of the women prisoners, which is a definite matter of concern. Over 25% of women are being held without legal cause, and many of them wait anywhere from three to seven years before even going to trial.

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Crime, human rights abuses, inside Haiti's prisons

Crime, human rights abuses, inside Haiti's prisons

Nearly 5000 Haitian criminals are being held in a building originally built in the 1930's and meant for only 1,500 inmates. The situation at Haiti's National Penitentiary is much the same in the country's other prisons. The overcrowding makes preserving order an uphill battle. A system of rotation allows officials to stop gangs from reforming within the walls, but the problem is exacerbated by delays in the judicial system. Many of the inmates are being held pending trials that may take many months to come.

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Corruption in Haiti

Corruption in Haiti

The problem of corruption in the Haitian society.

The 2014 Corruption Perception Index, which measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in 175 countries across the world, places Haiti as one of the top corrupted countries in the world. A country's rank indicates its position relative to the other countries in the index on a scale 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). The top three countries, with the highest scores in 2014, were: Denmark (92 score), New Zealand (91) and Finland (89). Sudan, Korea (North) and Somalia hold the last three ranks in the list, 172nd, 173rd and 174th with only 11, 11 and 8 scores respectively. Haiti and Venezuela hold the 161st rank jointly with 3 other countries (Guinea-Bissau, Angola and Yemen) and each of them scored 19 points only. Haiti's neighbor Dominic Republic comes 124th in the list with 30 points.

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Yvon Neptune, Jocelerme Privert, Lilas Desquiron, August 1, 2003

Yvon Neptune, Jocelerme Privert, Lilas Desquiron, August 1, 2003

Here is a picture of the Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune on the right. He is accompanied with by Mr. Jocelerme Privert, the actual Minister of Interior at the center of the picture. Also in this picture is Lilas Desquiron, Minister of Culture. This picture was taken on August 1, 2003 during the funeral of four government workers from the Ministry of the Interior who were assassinated in an ambush by gunmen on July 25, 2003 in Belladere

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Three arrests in connection with killing of Lencie Mirville

Three arrests in connection with killing of Lencie Mirville

This ia s picture of three of the people suspected to be involved in the killing of Lencie Mirville

The officers from the Central Directorate of Judicial Police (DCPJ) have arrested four suspected kidnappers and murderers of Lencie S. Mirville, on the night of December 19. Lencie Mirville (23 years), a student of the University Quisqueya was kidnapped on December 3rd in Bizoton 51. Despite paying the ransom ($50,000) by her father, the girl's body was found on December 8th, disfigured and wrapped in a sheet at the bottom of a cliff in Morne Karaté. The four persons arrested in this connection by the police are: Desir Jebson aka "Sonson" or "Lapoula", (28 years), Barthelemy Edison (32 years), Jean Francky (42), and William B. Géraldy. The criminals have confessed their crime and the police have confiscated the car used in the kidnapping. One of the kidnappers, "Sonson" was an employee (car mechanic) of the victim's father, who is a pastor. The pastor never realized that "Sonson" was one of the kidnappers. The pastor had given him the ransom money to deliver the kidnappers. "Sonson", the killer of Lencie, to show his innocence, was present during the young girl's funeral and carried her coffin.

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