The National Police of Haiti (PNH) will still have to wait "some time" to obtain the armored vehicles ordered from Canada in 2022 by the Haitian Government and which it badly needs in its fight against armed gangs.

Last year, the Canadian company INKAS, which manufactures these vehicles, pledged to send 18 armored vehicles designed to resist mines and ambushes in Haiti.

At the end of 2022, only 6 of these armored vehicles had been https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-37897-haiti-flash-the-first-new-armored-vehicles-for-the-pnh-have-arrived.html . Subsequently the Canadian Armed Forces transported three additional vehicles https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38597-haiti-news-zapping.html

Haiti is therefore still waiting for the other half of the armored vehicles ordered, according to Eugène Gerstein the associate director of INKAS, some of them would be ready in May and the others in June. Remember that the company has already postponed the delivery deadline several times in March, then in April 2023...

Eugene Gerstein claimed that the company's delays are mainly due to problems with the supply of certain parts, pointing out that several companies are facing the same problem due to the war in Ukraine "Some of the elements that we intended to use and that we needed are still lacking" said Gerstein "We have adopted another strategy, but again it depends on the deadlines of the external suppliers..."

It should be noted that the ability of the police to fight against gangs depends heavily on the few insufficient armored vehicles at their disposal.

PI/ HaitiLibre