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"There is no way to trap them -- right now," said Aristide, the top official at the Cite Soleil police station.

Most people milling around on the street "are looters, they're waiting for us to go. I try to understand,mbt professional shoes, they're desperate," the officer said. Related article: Haitians slums expand

Police eventually released the detained looters.

Police have doubled night patrols in Cite Soleil, a squalid Port-au-Prince slum with a population of one million people located next to the airport. Related article: Haiti quake toll to top 150,000

On Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines a local businessman gives orders to workers loading televisions and fridges onto a truck.

"They came back here, we know, but they are hiding in the alleys," said Chief Inspector Rosemond Aristide, referring to gang leaders.

Just down the street police stood aside as looters descended upon a wooden house like locusts, unable to contain the crowd.

"They will dynamite the whole area, that's why everybody is taking their merchandise out," he told AFP, although no one else in the area appeared to be following his lead.

Looting, an ongoing activity in downtown Port-au-Prince, picked up Sunday as excavators removed large chunks of debris, exposing both rotting cadavers and valuables. Related article: Traumatised Haitians comprehend grim fate

"I fled the day of the earthquake. I was serving a six-month sentence in Arcahaie," said Richmon Benedict, naming a prison in western Haiti.

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An officer guarding him smiled and said the police version of the events was different, but gave no further details.

"We patrol for 24 hours but we can't be everywhere," said another police officer. "With what little we have we aim to do the best possible."

In one downtown street, the Avenue of Miracles, police detained three looters who were raiding a pharmacy and forced them to the ground. Four other looters fled with police in hot pursuit, pistols drawn.

Police leaders are still trying to determine how many officers can report for work and how many police stations are still operational.

"We're not here to kill people," said an officer who declined to give his name. "The looters are everywhere."

In 2006 UN peacekeepers supported police in cracking down on the Cite Soleil crime lords, and spent bullets from the fierce gun battles between the two sides are still embedded in neighbourhood walls.

Store owner Wissam Hasboun, of Palestinian origin, said there's a rumour the entire city center will be razed soon and he doesn't want to lose his goods.

This hiatus is likely to be short-lived: the quake shattered the walls of the city's main prison,usa ugg boots, granting sudden freedom to some 4,000 convicts.

A store manager thought they had lost everything in the quake. She returned to find that the damaged building could be accessed -- but looters had been there first.

Haiti police count their losses, prepare for calamity
JORDI ZAMORA January 25, 2010

Police in the Haitian capital counted their losses and gathered their forces, preparing for a surge in crime they are certain will follow the devastating January 12 earthquake.

"Come quickly, the situation is degenerating," a police officer barked into his radio, calling for backup.

Cite Soleil police say they captured at least one escaped prisoner.

Looting is widespread in this city struggling to recover from the powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake, but police say they have yet to see a wider rise in violent crime.

"What can I do? We have no jail," the officer said.

"We have not received an increase in crime reports at this time," said the police commissioner from the Delmas sector, Carl Henry Boucher. "But I'm afraid that is going to change."

"It's a whole life gone," said Fernande Derenoncourt. "My mother is the owner, she's 93 -- 70 years of work gone. Of course we have no insurance."

Nevertheless police say that crime has not dramatically increased.

"Looters accuse other looters, to get rid of them -- thieves calling other thieves thieves," he said, overwhelmed by the situation.

"I surrendered because I did not want to be on the lam right now,womens timberland shoes," Benedict said, speaking from the Cite Soleil police station jail.


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