Vladimir Paraison is the chief of the Haitian National Police (PNH). He took up his post in August 2025 and has ferociously pursued Viv Ansanm, the gang confederacy that controls much of Port-au-Prince.
Mr Paraison, aged 55, has worked for the national police since it was set up in 1995 — Haiti previously had no civilian police at all. He plans to recruit 4,000 officers a year to raise a police-to-resident ratio that has always been far below international standards. He works in a task-force with the new American-backed Gang Suppression Force and a team of foreign military contractors, mostly former American and Salvadoran soldiers. The contractors help the police carry out "kamikaze" drone attacks against gangster territory. "He has this warrior mentality," said Stacy Librandi, who runs Hero Foundation. "The rank-and-file love him."
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