The head of the U.N. peacekeeping on Thursday said that the world body's January 19 call for additional 3,500 police and troops to deploy to Haiti has already been met. Alain Le Roy said the additional troops would mostly deploy from countries in the region such as an additional 900 troops from Brazil and 150 from the Dominican Republic. The additional police, some 1500, will come from further a field, Le Roy said, adding that Pakistan, Rwanda, Turkey, Spain, Bangladesh, the Netherlands and Italy would all contribute police units. The additional troops and police will bring to more than 13,000 the number of U.N. peacekeepers in the country. He also said that reports that the Haitian national police had "disappeared" were false. In the days following the quake, there was an absence of police on the streets but this was because police barracks had been destroyed and Haitian police were searching for their families. "Haitian national police are back on the streets," he reiterated. Meanwhile, the head of the U.N. mission in Haiti said the country's education sector is struggling in the aftermath of the January 12 quake. "Four thousand students died the day of the earthquake," Edmund Mulet said. "1,300 schools were completely destroyed and an additional 1,000 schools were affected." According to the U.N. children's agency, only 62 percent of Haitians can read and write.
