Many of these divisions are specialized to address particular chronic crimes that affect the nation, including kidnapping, drugs and gangs.

The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti has implemented a series of plans to increase the size of the police force to 14,000.[when?]

In the late 1980s, the Narcotics Bureau, commanded by an army major, had acquired some visibility and resources of its own, with a reported staff of about twenty-five people.

This fusion of civil and military administration continued to be possible because of the broad range of responsibilities assigned to the Ministry of Interior and National Defense.

Some observers have argued that links between the senior army command and remnants of the MVSN have paralyzed reforms in Haiti's judicial system.

An illustration of their point was the reported incorporation of some MVSN personnel into FAd'H units and some members of the VSN, as plainclothes paramilitary agents, in the Dessalines Battalion.

The demise of the Dessalines Battalion and the Leopards, the latter of which had served as Haiti's special weapons and tactics unit, raised questions in the spring of 1989 about the future of a national police force.

The Avril government reported some success in cracking down on abuses within the security services, but violence continued to be a serious problem.

Rural section chiefs, who wielded considerable power within their limited jurisdictions, arbitrarily harassed and physically abused citizens, according to some reports.

Lasting improvements in internal security, however, appeared unlikely without the establishment of functional civilian institutions and some resolution of the status of the former members of the tonton makouts.

After Aristide fled the country, the interim president removed 200 corrupt and inexperienced officers in an effort to improve the PNH's effectiveness.

Former military personnel exert considerable influence within the police force, and some have begun to push for the reestablishment of the Haitian army.

[5] The PNH is currently headed by the Director General (chief of police) Rameau Normil appointed by the government of Garry Conille.

Although officially part of the police force, the Presidential Security Unit operates with its own budget and administration.

It is located in the Clercine neighborhood at an extension of the Terminal Guy Malary and is housed in a thousand square meter building.

Previously the DCPJ shared the room with the Departmental Direction of the West is moved over two years towards the city center.

The Central Directorate of Judicial Police's mission is to find the perpetrators of crimes, gather evidence and clues in order to bring them in front their natural judge within the time fixed by law.

This resulted in an officer cadre whose training and ethics are inadequate, and that a significant fraction is related to human rights abuses, drug trafficking, illicit enrichment, and most vicious crimes, including the latest fashion is to say the kidnapping of peaceful and honest citizens, as well as their wives and their children.