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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 PORT AU PRINCE 000908 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR WHA/EX AND WHA/CAR 
INL FOR KEVIN BROWN, ANGELIC YOUNG AND DON STOLWORTHY 
S/CRS 
INR/IAA 
STATE PASS AID FOR LAC/CAR 
SOUTHCOM ALSO FOR POLAD 
WHA/EX PLEASE PASS USOAS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
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SUBJECT: INL/CIV DEPUTY DIRECTOR VISIT JUNE 9-12 
 
PORT AU PR 00000908  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
¶1.  (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified.  Please 
protect accordingly. 
 
¶2.  (U) SUMMARY.  INL/CIV Deputy Director Angelic Young 
visited NAS Haiti June 9-12 to confer on current programs and 
future plans and to visit project sites.  She visited the 
National Police Academy and Cite Soleil and met with US, 
Canadian, and MINUSTAH officials resident in Haiti.  End 
summary. 
 
¶3.  (U) INL/CIV Deputy Director Young visited Embassy Port au 
Prince June 9-12 to obtain a first hand impression of current 
programs, share ideas on future projects, review NAS funding 
levels, and discuss ways to improve communication and 
assistance to the NAS staff from Washington.  She also 
attended the presentation by the NAS/INL Corrections Advisor 
on appropriate infrastructure as part of a conference on 
"Juvenile Delinquency in Haiti: Detention, Incarceration and 
Social Reinsertion," at which the U.S. Ambassador delivered 
opening remarks.  NAS is moving forward with plans to provide 
upgraded recreational, educational, and dining facilities 
within the male juvenile facility. 
 
¶4.  (SBU) INL/CIV Deputy Director accompanied Embassy NAS and 
security officials into Cite Soleil to the weekly security 
meeting at Marche Boulos (Strongpoint 16), the site that will 
soon be renovated as the main police station in Cite Soleil 
under the Haiti Stabilization Initiative (HSI).  MINUSTAH and 
Brazilian Battalion officials were also in attendance.  NAS 
provided an update on construction within the facility. 
Interior demolition is set to begin the week of June 16-20, 
with full construction finished in September.  Security 
officials noted an increase in the number of incidents 
involving weapons carried openly within the area and an armed 
encounter with police that resulted in one of the 
perpetrators being shot dead.  All expressed their concerns 
about this trend and welcomed the announcement that 
renovation of the police station was about to begin.  US 
officials also toured the small police station constructed 
within a corner of the building for the 36 Haitian National 
Police (HNP) officers currently 
assigned to Cite Soleil.  The logo of the HNP is painted 
prominently on the side of the building, the first such 
evidence of a permanent police presence in the area since 
¶2004. 
 
¶5.  (SBU) NAS Director, Police Advisor and INL/CIV Deputy 
Director visited the National Police Academy on June 11. 
They met with the Director, who escorted them on a walking 
tour of the proposed NAS instructor barracks construction 
site and the current construction in the cadet areas being 
undertaken by Canada.  He thanked the US for its on-going 
support of the Academy, both in constructing and renovating 
the instructors living quarters and in equipping each cadet 
class since 2004.  He expressed his frustration with the 
unsanitary conditions created in part of the Academy grounds 
(near the soon-to-be-completed cadet barracks) as a result of 
water and sewage runoff from the MINUSTAH Jordanian Formed 
Police Unit that occupies part of the facility.  He reported 
that the 20th promotion of cadets should enter the Academy in 
early July.  The last class graduated in November 2007 and he 
voiced his concern that the gap between classes had 
lengthened, primarily due to difficulties in identifying 
qualified cadets from 
the short list remaining of those recruited in 2005, and 
emphasized the need for new recruitment to begin very soon. 
Once the construction is complete, a second class of cadets, 
the 21st promotion, will begin, probably in September. 
Although no class will graduate in 2008, three classes 
(approx. 1600 cadets) should graduate in 2009.  (Comment: 
MINUSTAH and donor countries remain very concerned about the 
inability of the HNP to train sufficient numbers of police to 
meet the target of 14,000 by 2011.  The failure to graduate 
any cadets this year is a setback that SRSG Annabi is 
concerned may extend the timeline for MINUSTAH drawdown or 
departure. End comment.) 
 
 
PORT AU PR 00000908  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
¶6.  (SBU) U.S. UN police advisors assigned to the HNP 
Anti-Kidnapping Unit (AKU), most of whom are retired NYPD, 
also met with INL and NAS to discuss the need for additional 
support to this unit.  They voiced their frustration with the 
lack of resources and support afforded to that unit by the 
HNP in spite of lip service paid to the high priority of 
halting the recent wave of kidnappings.  They pointed out 
that the AKU is understaffed and yet maintains an 
extraordinarily good record of safe return of victims in 
spite of having no HNP supplied vehicles, no logistical 
support, and no technical equipment.  They also emphasized 
the need for attention to the case management process as a 
key stumbling block to further progress on this critical 
issue.  They urged the U.S. to provide additional 
opportunities for acquiring specialized equipment, field 
mentoring by professionals experienced in anti-kidnapping, 
and continued training whenever available.  NAS has provided 
some support to the unit in the past and agreed to look into 
ways to increase that support in the near future. 
 
¶7.  This cable has been cleared by INL/CIV Deputy Director 
Young. 
SANDERSON