A police officer is today the most recent victim of the climate of insecurity plaguing Haiti, despite government measures to curb this phenomenon.
Inspector Wilner Seraphin was kidnapped at gun point in the center of the capital by unidentified armed individuals, a police source confirmed to the press.
The agent, trained in technique and security strategy, is assigned to the Delmas 3 sub-police station and the kidnappers asked for one million dollars for his release.
The case is part of a wave of detentions and murders that intensified at the end of last year and killed at least a thousand people, while a similar number were kidnapped for ransom, according to local human rights organizations.
The police are aware of the problem, since reports from social platforms indicated that in 2020 at least thirty agents were shot dead in the country.
The government, for its part, has taken measures to combat insecurity and in recent weeks the police have deployed several operations in vulnerable neighborhoods in the capital and its surroundings, under the influence of armed gangs. (https://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=63239&SEO=haitian-police-among-victims-of-kidnappings)
