WOLA's 1996 report on professionalizing police in Haiti offered original recommendations on how to build better civilian security forces for the long term in the wake of the 1994 deployment of a U.S.-led multinational military force in Haiti. In this report, Rachel Neild provided an account of the tensions created in the past in this process and argued that it was time to leave these tensions behind and focus on new problems that came with the creation of the PNH (Police Nationale d'Haiti).
In 1996, Rachel Neild wrote an essay on the process of civilizing the police force in Haiti. In her essay, Neild provided an account of the tensions created in the past in this ongoing process by analyzing the agents involved, that is, the U.S. and the Haitian governments. She argued that it was time to leave these tensions behind and focus on the problems that came with the creation of the PNH (Police Nationale d'Haiti) and the challenges that the professionalizing process was facing.
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