Hundreds of Kenyan police officers leading an international policing force in Haiti have not received their full pay for two months, the latest complication in what has been a rocky start to the security mission in the gang-plagued Caribbean nation. <\/p>\n
The first Kenyan officers deployed to Haiti arrived in June, the vanguard of a multinational security support mission (MSS)\u00a0that is being funded\u00a0largely by the United States. There are now around 400 Kenyan police in the country, many from specialized units. <\/p>\n
In an August 25 statement acknowledging delays to payments, the MSS announced that officers could expect the missing funds to hit their bank accounts this week. <\/p>\n
\u201cTherefore, there is nothing to worry about\u00a0(regarding)\u00a0welfare issues of the MSS officers, since mainstream\u00a0processes have been finalized,\u201d the MSS added. <\/p>\n
In a \u201cprogress report\u201d released Monday, Kenya\u2019s National Police Service (NPS) said that the officers were continuing \u201cto\u00a0draw their NPS salaries\u201d\u00a0while waiting for the supplemental pay for their MSS duties. <\/p>\n
Kenyan officers had expected to be paid a significant supplement\u00a0for their Haiti deployment \u2013 a grueling assignment more typical of a military than of a police force. Officers are not allowed to leave their base in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince during non-working hours. <\/p>\n
The MSS force is expected to ultimately grow to 2,500, with more troops\u00a0expected\u00a0from Jamaica, Benin, Chad, the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados and Belize. The\u00a0force is hoped to bolster the Haitian National Police\u2019s battles against\u00a0an alliance of gangs\u00a0that controls an estimated 85% of the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. <\/p>\n
The MSS is financed through a UN-managed\u00a0trust fund, to which the US, Canada, France and Spain have contributed millions of dollars. The United States has committed\u00a0at least $380 million overall in support of the mission, largely in the form of equipment and materiel. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Hundreds of Kenyan police officers leading an international policing force in Haiti have not received their full pay for two months, the latest complication in what has been a rocky start to the security mission in the gang-plagued Caribbean nation. The first Kenyan officers deployed to Haiti arrived in June, the vanguard of a multinational […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}