A/HRC/4/3 page 14 39. In order to make this offensive even more effective, MINUSTAH and the Government decided to form two specialized intervention groups (currently in training) to make high-risk arrests or conduct special security operations. The two groups should begin operation in the near future. A. The temptation - heedless of the past - to re-establish an army (at great expense) instead of investing in the considerable efforts being made to create a professional police force 1. Re-establishment of the army 40. The independent expert can only recall his position on this point: what is really at stake is not so much the potential role of an army (so that a war may be waged one day against the people, as has so often occurred in Haiti’s history) as the creation - and this will take time - of a democratic and effective police force. Not only must the vetting procedure be carried out to completion with the utmost rigour but also, and above all, all efforts must be concentrated on both the initial and continued training of police officers, which will give the Haitian National Police the logistical means necessary to deal with the crisis (the role of donors is important in this regard) and eradicate in the police force - in addition to certain widely acknowledged areas of incompetence - corruption, mafia-like collusion with gangs and other arms and drug traffickers, even with certain political figures. This vetting process is a long-term task, since the gangrene of corruption has become widespread. 2. The priority of vetting the police force 41. In addition to the decisive role that the Haitian National Police Training Academy in Frères should play in training, two essential measures must be taken to raise the moral standards of the police force: (a) the police force must be vetted so that the most compromised elements can be removed and (b) the reform of the General Police Inspectorate must be commensurate with the scale of the crisis. It is also necessary to ensure that the measures taken are properly implemented. 42. There is real political will regarding the first measure, and the measure appears to be well under way. According to the Directorate General of the Haitian National Police, at the beginning of December 2006, 53 police officers underwent the isolation procedure, 186 were dismissed, and 464 others were subjected to a similar procedure. Following the adoption in August 2006 of a plan to reform the Haitian National Police, a major vetting operation was launched in November 2006 in accordance with the following procedure: (a) Creation of a database from two sources of information: the register of all currently active police officers, and a programme to appraise police officers in the field under the responsibility of the Haitian National Police; (b) This database will then be used to create individual files for initial screening accompanied by provisional certification; (c) succession: The next stage involves the following measures, conducted simultaneously or in