Three (3) days after his appointment by the Transitional Government to the position of Acting Director General of the Haitian National Police (PNH), Rameau Normil was installed on Friday, June 21, 2024, in his new position. He takes the reins of the police institution for the second time during a ceremony held at the General Directorate of the PNH in the presence of Prime Minister Garry and the President of the Presidential Transitional Council, Edgard Leblanc Fils, the Minister of Justice , Me Carlos Hercules and the outgoing Director General, Frantz Elbé, among others.
THE HAITI FACTOR, June 21, 2024._Rameau Normil takes office this Friday, June 21, 2024, as the new Acting Director General of the Haitian National Police (PNH). He replaces Frantz Elbé in this position who spent 2 years and 6 months there.
Rameau Normil was installed in his new position by Prime Minister Garry Conille in the presence of outgoing Director General Frantz Elbé.
In his intervention, the head of the Transitional Government asks the new AI Chief Command of the Haitian Police to get to work today in concert with the Government to be able to strengthen the institution by giving it everything it will need in terms of equipment to better reassure the police, integrate the Haitian army in order to regain control of the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince.
In turn, the new Acting Commander-in-Chief of the Haitian National Police, Rameau Normil, greeted the memory of all the victims of the terror of armed and criminal gangs, especially the police officers murdered in the exercise of their functions.
Signing his return to the head of the institution in a context of security crisis established by armed gangs four (4) years after being replaced from his post for lack of results, Rameau Normil showed himself aware of the worsening of the security situation in Haiti.
To try to remedy the situation, the new boss of the PNH is seeking the collaboration of all vital sectors of the country to track down the gangsters in order to allow the population to resume their daily activities.
Therefore, he is banking on the unwavering support promised to him by Prime Minister Garry and the Presidential Transitional Council to regain control of the monopoly of violence.
Present at the installation ceremony of the new Acting Director General of the police institution, the President of the Presidential Transitional Council, Edgard Leblanc, for his part, said he welcomed the efforts made by the outgoing Acting Director General, Frantz Elbé in a context fragile and difficult to contain the progression of armed gangs in the metropolitan region of Port-au-Prince.
According to Edgard Leblanc Fils, Frantz Elbé, so much criticized for his inability to thwart the armed gangs in their abuses, served the country to the extent of the means available.
To the new acting Director General of the PNH, Rameau Normil, the President of the CPT said he wished him good work and success in this noble task which consists of establishing security and tranquility in the streets of the Capital and that of provincial towns.
Remember that during his first stint at the head of the PNH (August 2019-November 2020), Rameau Normil did not meet the expectations placed on him in terms of expected results. As proof, Jouthe Joseph, Head of Government at the time, declared that he was not satisfied with his work at the General Directorate of the police institution.
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