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A con­tin­gent of more than 200 Kenyan po­lice of­fi­cers re­turned home on Tues­day night from Haiti, where their ser­vices formed part of Kenya’s broad­er lead­er­ship role in the UN-backed multi­na­tion­al mis­sion aimed at im­prov­ing se­cu­ri­ty in the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try.

“215 po­lice of­fi­cers, who formed the sec­ond con­tin­gent of the Multi­na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Sup­port (MSS) Mis­sion to Haiti, have safe­ly re­turned home. The of­fi­cers were part of our 2023 de­ploy­ment to sup­port ef­forts to sta­bilise Haiti and as­sist the Hait­ian Na­tion­al Po­lice in restor­ing pub­lic or­der in ar­eas af­fect­ed by in­se­cu­ri­ty,” the Min­istry of the In­te­ri­or said in a state­ment.

The of­fi­cers were met on ar­rival at the Jo­mo Keny­at­ta In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port by In­spec­tor Gen­er­al Dou­glas Kan­ja, along­side In­te­ri­or Prin­ci­pal Sec­re­tary, Ray­mond Omol­lo, and oth­er se­nior se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cials.