RCMP likely to assist Haiti military intervention as trainers, senators hear
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Canada is also helping assemble a training calendar so that foreign police can fill the gaps that Haitian and Canadian officials have identified.
Global Affairs Canada says Canada is likely to deploy RCMP officers to Haiti to act as trainers in a multinational military intervention, with officials promising an added focus on preventing sexual violence.
“The RCMP are looking at being focused on technical training,” said Lisa Vandehei, the head of an interdepartmental task force on Haiti at Global Affairs Canada.
“Canada’s training mission, the planning for it is still underway,” she testified at the Senate foreign-affairs committee Thursday.
The United Nations Security Council approved a multinational force Monday to help combat violent gangs in Haiti, which Kenya has offered to lead by January.
Vandehei said Canada is still assessing its contribution to the mission, adding that Kenya is prepared to launch a deployment within 90 days of its parliament ratifying the mission.
She said the RCMP will likely train officers of the Haitian National Police on “very surgical, technical areas” through a model that would have each Canadian-trained officer go on to teach other Haitian peers.
“The RCMP are the best in the world in several areas of policing that the HNP need, in certain elements.”
Global Affairs Canada said in a statement that Ottawa is also “focused on preventing sexual and gender-based violence” in Haiti, noting gangs have been using sexual violence as a means of controlling the population.
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