A team of Kenyan police to be deployed to Haiti will use the General Service Unit uniform as their official combat attire.
Officials aware of the plans revealed they had arrived at the jungle green uniform to their official attire in the period they will be deployed to the Caribbean nation.
More than 1,000 officers will be picked from the Rapid Deployment Unit, Anti Stock Theft Unit, General Service Unit, and Border Patrol Unit to form a larger team for deployment.
These officers have paramilitary training and are likely to work well with other personnel from countries that have agreed to send theirs to Haiti for the same mission.
The team has been training together as part of efforts to ensure they synchronize when they land there.
They wear different colours of uniforms here. Kenya will take the command and operations of about 3,000 personnel.
The team will also use their AK47 rifles as the main combating weapons.
“These are the weapons they are used to. If the others will come we will see but for now, it is the AK47 rifles to be used,” said an official aware of the plans.
Department of Peace Operations, the multinational force in Haiti will be overseen by Kenya, although its forces are there with U.N. authorization, which gives the intervention the backing of international law.
Chile, Jamaica, Grenada, Paraguay, Burundi, Chad, Nigeria and Mauritius are among the countries that have confirmed the deployment of their officers to Haiti.
