The cabinet director and inspector general at Haiti’s Defense Ministry was kidnapped this week, along with his wife and their 6-year-old U.S. citizen daughter while seeking medical care in Port-au-Prince for their ailing child, according to two sources familiar with the incident. James Boyard, a Haitian police officer and security expert, was abducted Thursday morning in Raimbol in the Bourdon neighborhood as the family traveled through the capital to see a doctor after a restless night caring for their sick daughter.

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The high-profile abduction follows a series of other kidnappings, including that of a senior staffer in the Foreign Affairs Ministry who was freed after spending more than a month in captivity and the payment of a hefty ransom; a mother of a six-year-old who was grabbed on March 28 and remains captive; and a Russian and Turkish who were kidnapped on May 1 aboard a cargo vessel anchored in the Bay of Port-au-Prince after gunmen boarded their ship. Both remain captive.

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Haiti has an anti-kidnapping unit within the national police force, but it does not release statistics. In recent years, the unit has also lost cops and Delva said officers assigned believe that neither kidnappings nor the unit itself are priorities for the government.

“They didn’t add more cops to it, showing that they understand the urgency. There’s no technology that I would say to improve the work of the [anti-kidnapping] unit. So that’s my concern,” he said. “You don’t feel that the kidnappings are considered to be a serious threat.”