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UN mission in Haiti installs free phone line to receive reports of criminal activities

UN mission in Haiti installs free phone line to receive reports of criminal activities

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti has launched a free and confidential telephone service through which Haitians can report on criminal activities to the mission's civilian police.

Reports through the service, called "Je Wè Bouch Pale," would include human rights violations, any kind of corruption and, especially, kidnappings. They would be analyzed and transmitted to the appropriate law enforcement unit, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) said yesterday at the launching.

"By creating this [telephone] line, the management of MINUSTAH's civilian police wants to show the population its great determination to improve security in Haiti," the spokesman for the civilian police (CivPol), Jean Francois Vezina, said.