US News

Kelly hailed over Haiti

WASHINGTON — The State Department yesterday gave Police Commissioner Ray Kelly an award for a program that sends Creole-speaking department police to Haiti to train its officers.

Kelly received the Excellence in Overseas Criminal Justice Award. New York has been sending cops to Haiti since 2010.

The NYPD has officers from 90 countries, he said.

“The world has become a much smaller place and we have to be concerned with what’s happening beyond our borders and this is a vehicle that enables us to do it,” Kelly said.