A/HRC/4/3 page 4 CONTENTS Paragraphs Page Introduction .............................................................................................. 1-3 6 Return to constitutional legality confirmed by the election of René Préval as President of the Republic ................................ 4-7 6 THE RISK OF SEEING THIS LARGELY SUCCESSFUL EMERGENCE FROM THE CRISIS COMPROMISED BY GROWING AND ALMOST UNCONTROLLABLE INSECURITY .............................................................................. 8 - 34 7 The regrettable deterioration in relations between the police and the justice system ......................................... 8 - 15 7 The persistence of numerous shortcomings in the police force, the judiciary and the prison system ................. 16 - 20 8 Shortcomings in the police force and the judiciary ................................................................. 16 - 17 8 Shortcomings in the prison system .............................. 18 - 20 10 (a) Recurrence of, and increase in, cases of extended detention ............................................... 18 - 19 10 (b) Treatment of detainees ......................................... 20 10 Increase in organized violent crime ..................................... 21 - 34 11 1. Increase in the number of murders .............................. 22 - 32 11 2. The wave of kidnappings for ransom .......................... 33 - 34 12 WHICH STRATEGY - NEGOTIATION OR CRACKDOWN SHOULD BE USED TO COMBAT THE IMPUNITY OF THESE SO-CALLED “NEO-CRIMINALS”? ............................ 35 - 39 13 40 - 49 14 I. A. B. 1. 2. C. II. 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 14 2. The priority of vetting the police force ........................ 41 - 49 14