Promotion of Inspector General Frédéric Leconte to Chief Inspector General of the Haitian National Police

Former DCPJ Director, Inspector General Frédéric Leconte, has been officially promoted to Chief Inspector General of the Haitian National Police (PNH). He succeeds Frantz Thermilus, who held this position for fourteen months under the administration of Normil Rameau.

This appointment comes in a worrying context marked by the deteriorating security situation in the country. The new Chief Inspector General was proposed and decorated on formal instructions from the National Police Council (CPT) during an insignia presentation ceremony presided over by Alix Didier Fils Aimé, head of the Superior Council of the National Police (CSPN). The ceremony also saw the participation of the coordinator of the Presidential Transitional Council, Laurent Saint Cyr.

This change within the General Inspectorate of the PNH is part of a strategy aimed at revitalizing and strengthening the institution's high command. The IGPNH's mission is, in fact, to ensure compliance with the principles set out in the PNH's code of ethics and to guarantee the proper functioning of the institution, among other things.

Aware of the magnitude of this responsibility, the new Chief Inspector General, Frédéric Leconte, expressed his great satisfaction and his clear willingness to collaborate closely with the interim Director General André Jonas Vladimir Paraison. His objective is to make the national police more professional, so that it can truly fulfill its mission.

Through the changes made within the PNH in recent weeks, executive members wish to send clear signals to terrorist groups responsible for multiple acts of violence against the civilian population.

Jacques Innocent