China is training 125 riot police who will be sent to Haiti in early December as China's sixth peacekeeping squad to join the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission there.
The riot police, all from southwest China's Yunnan Province and mostly anti-drug trafficking police officers, will be offered a string of specialized training programs, such as peacekeeping knowledge, language, driving, shooting, and tactics, in the coming three months, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
The training is carried out at the China Peace-keeping CIVPOL (civilian police) Training Center in Langfang, north China's Hebei Province, about 50 km east of Beijing.
The 125 police officers were picked from 1,100 candidates, and they have gone through a two-month basic training program in the Yunnan provincial capital of Kunming before they went to Langfang, said a spokesman with the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Border Defense Unit.
Approved by the UN, they will depart for Haiti in early December to replace China's fifth peacekeeping squad of 125 riot police there, who went to Haiti in April this year, the spokesman said.
China has participated in the UN peace-keeping missions in Haiti since October 2004.
Source: Xinhua
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