The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday adopted a resolution to transform a UN-backed security mission in gang-dominated Haiti into a larger, full-fledged force with military troops.

The new force can now have a maximum of 5,500 uniformed personnel, including police officers and soldiers, unlike the current mission, which is just law enforcement.

US ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said the vote by 12 council members "to transform the Multinational Security Support mission to the new gang suppression force, a mission five-times the size of its predecessor" showed the "international community was sharing the burden."

Washington co-sponsored the enlargement push with Panama.

Currently, just 1,000 police officers, mostly from Kenya, are deployed in Haiti under the Multinational Secu

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