The Police mobilized all necessary resources to investigate the crime in which the director of the National Police Academy lost his life, Elbé said.

He also sent condolences to the family and friends and recalled that Rigaud was a part of the fifth graduation of the force.

The officer was shot in the head by armed individuals who fled in the police car where the divisional police commissioner was traveling and kidnapped the driver, police spokesman Garry Desrosiers told reporters.

The killing comes amid an upsurge of violence in Haiti that claimed the life of Croix des Bouquets Police chief commissioner Evagelot Bact in Tabarre on October 18.

Despite recent successful police operations and regaining control of the Varreux oil terminal earlier this month, killings and kidnappings of civilians continue to rise.

At the same time, the authorities lack sufficient means to deal with the gangs.

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