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Haitian leaders oust police chief and appoint a new one as gang violence claims officers’ lives

  • Frantz Elbé, director of Haiti’s Police, was ousted by Haitian leaders due to his failure to protect officers from gangs.
  • Normil Rameau, a former police chief, will lead the underfunded department with only 4,000 officers in a country of 11 million.
  • Gangs, controlling 80% of Port-au-Prince, have killed nearly two dozen officers with superior weapons.
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Gang-ravaged Haiti to replace national police head with former chief

Haiti will replace the head of its national police force, Frantz Elbe, with former chief Rameau Normil, the prime minister's office said on Friday, as the country faces a gang crisis that has displaced over half a million people.

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xm.com broke the news in on Wednesday, September 10, 2014.
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