31st anniversary of the PNH: report on the general operating conditions of the institution from June 2025 to June 2026

12 June 2026 marks the thirty-first anniversary of the Haitian National Police, and the network uses it to take stock of an institution it says is going through one of the most critical periods in its history. The period under review, June 2025 to June 2026, is set in a context of progressive collapse of state authority, expanding armed groups, accelerating deterioration in security and multiplying serious human rights violations, with the state failing to restore even minimal security in the areas already under armed control while attacks on the population, on public infrastructure and on the security forces increased. The report covers the institutional changes recorded within the force over the year, the strengthening of its capacities and its international cooperation in training, materials, equipment and infrastructure, the general working conditions of officers and the state of police premises, logistics and vehicles, the officers assassinated or kidnapped, and the armed attacks on police infrastructure.

Thirty-five officers were assassinated over the year, twenty-one of them in clashes with armed groups, and three were kidnapped and remain missing; at least eight armed attacks were carried out against police posts, bringing the total number of attacks on police infrastructure to eighty-five. The network's judgement is that officers, apart from those in collusion with armed groups, did their utmost against enormous operational pressure, and that it was not enough; and that while cooperation with international partners matters for the recovery and professionalisation of the force, it falls to the Haitian state to assess the institution's needs and meet them. Its recommendations are for sufficient materials and equipment at every station and substation, better allocation of the force's human and material resources, a stronger intelligence service for planning and coordinating operations, assessment and repair of police premises, particularly in remote regions, and improved working conditions, revised salaries and the regular payment of wages and social benefits to every officer, not the leadership alone.