Two Decrees: Reserving Former-Head-of-State Privileges to Directly Elected Presidents, and Creating the Land-Insecurity Intervention Brigade (BRICIF)

The first arrêté, adopted on the report of the Minister of Economy and Finance (Palais National, 12 July 2017), restricts the privileges provided by Articles 2 and 3 of the 23 September 2015 arrêté on former heads of state — secretariat, close-protection service and adequate transport, funded by the State — to presidents elected exclusively by direct universal suffrage, without altering privileges already granted to former heads of government. The second arrêté, adopted on the report of the Minister of Justice and Public Security, creates the Brigade d'Intervention Contre l'Insécurité Foncière (BRICIF), citing decades of armed, organized land seizures disrupting Port-au-Prince and Croix-des-Bouquets.

BRICIF's mandate (Art. 4) covers receiving victims' complaints, intervening at land-crime scenes, apprehending offenders for referral to the competent jurisdiction, and facilitating enforcement of final court judgments. Its composition (Art. 5) includes the Secretary of State for Public Security, the government commissioners of the Port-au-Prince and Croix-des-Bouquets courts (or substitutes), the head of the judicial police (DCPJ), and specialized national-police agents; a justice of the peace from the conflict zone must be present at every intervention, and the brigade reports weekly with recommendations.