Haitian National Police's 37th class graduates at the National Police Academy

The Haitian National Police (PNH) graduated its 37th class on Friday 30 October 2026 at a ceremony at the National Police Academy, according to Ticket Magazine. Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé and Justice and Public Security Minister Patrick Pélissier presented prizes to the class's top graduates, the magazine reported; its footage shows the new officers parading in uniform.

The U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince congratulated the graduates in a statement issued the same day. The exact number of officers who graduated had not been released at the time of publication. When it was sworn in in June, the class had 1,200 recruits, 239 women and 961 men, divided into twenty sections of sixty, Le Nouvelliste reported.

The third cohort of the P-4000 programme

This is the third class trained under the U.S.-funded P-4000 programme. According to the embassy, it brings the number of new officers trained and deployed through the programme to more than 3,200, backed by more than $25 million from the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). The goal is to pass 4,000 officers by spring 2027: in sixteen months, the programme will have produced as many new officers as the academy usually graduates in seven years, the embassy says. The 35th and 36th classes added 2,069 officers, including 394 women, according to Vant Bèf Info.

According to the embassy, programme graduates are deployed directly to communities to dislodge gangs, hold cleared territory and secure infrastructure and transit corridors, alongside specialised PNH units, the Armed Forces of Haiti (FAd'H) and the UN-authorised Gang Suppression Force (GSF). Candidates are screened for gang ties using retinal-scan lie-detection technology, and the curriculum includes mandatory ethics, leadership and human rights instruction, the statement says.