China will send the fifth group of riot police totaling 125 members to Haiti next month for an eight-month peace-keeping mission.

All the riot police officers were picked from south China's Guangdong Provincial Armed Police Corps of Frontier Defense, a spokesman of the corps said.

They had received five months of intensive training on language, shooting, driving, and combat skills since last October, the spokesman said.

The first contingent of 30 members will leave for Haiti on April 3 and the rest on April 12, he said.

They will bring the total number of riot police officers sent by China to Haiti since October 2004 to more than 1,000, he said.

Source: Xinhua