In November 2020, President Jovenel Moïse appointed Léon Charles as Director-General of the National Police. On March 12, 2021, the police institution faced one of its most emblematic failures at Village de Dieu, during an operation in which five elite police officers were killed by the 5 Seconds gang, which still controls this district of Port-au-Prince today.
A few months later, on June 1, 2021, the PNH lost total control of one of the country's most important roads at Martiss