NYPD officers to aid security efforts at camps

Haiti (CMC): New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has held talks with President Rene Préval and top security officials, as part of the efforts for the deployment of six Creole-speaking New York Police Depatment (NYPD) officers to the earthquake-battered country later this month.

NYDP spokesman Paul Browne said that the United States government will meet the costs of deploying the police officers, in keeping with the plans to help rebuild the Caribbean Community country devastated by the earthquake on January 12.

Kelly said the officers will be on 90-day assignments and rotate in and out in six-member teams.

Last place on earth

"No place needs an earthquake, but Haiti was the last place on earth that could sustain one," said Kelly who also met with the director general of the Haitian National Police, Mario Andresol during his visit on Monday.

Kelly said the major concerns, even before the earthquake, were kidnappings and drug trafficking, and it is now important also to keep order in the various refugee camps.