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00:00Long promised and long awaited, a contingent of 20 soldiers and four police officers from
00:05Jamaica as well as two Belizean soldiers have now touched down in Port-au-Prince, where
00:10they joined the 400 Kenyan police deployed in June and July.
00:15We gather here today for the sole purpose of welcoming our brothers from Jamaica and
00:21Belize for this special mission that we are undertaking.
00:27And I can tell the Haitian community and the Haitian people, as I said earlier, we are
00:33not going to fail you.
00:34The mission's mandate is to counter gangs, improve security conditions in the country
00:39and secure critical infrastructure.
00:42In May, Jamaica pledged their support for the mission, promising a contingent of 200
00:46officers, but the Prime Minister said it was not possible to deploy them all at once.
00:52This city is the example of what could happen if states and governments do not take the
01:04problem seriously.
01:08This mission, supposed to have 2,500 officers and a budget of 533 million euros, is still
01:15below the 500 mark 11 months into its one-year mandate, with an estimated funding shortfall
01:20of 200 million.
01:22Kenyan officers have even suffered delays to their pay.
01:25Meanwhile, 600,000 Haitians were internally displaced in just the first half of the year.
01:32And the streets of the capital are 80% controlled by gangs, with murders back on the rise since
01:37the arrival of the first troops.