A shipment of armored vehicles from Canada and the United States arrived in Haiti on Saturday amid outbreaks of violence in the country, but some experts are skeptical about Canada’s decision to intervene.

The coordinated shipment was planned as part of a joint operation with the Royal Canadian Air Force and the U.S. Air Force.

The Canadian Global Affairs organization issued a statement Saturday evening confirming that the joint delivery of armored vehicles from the Canadian and American armies has arrived in Haiti.

The statement says, "Today, Canadian and American military aircraft arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti to transport critical security equipment purchased by the Haitian government, including tactical and armored vehicles, and supplies to the Director General of the Haitian National Police (HNP)."

The statement also, issued by Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly and Minister of National Defence Anita Anand, stated that the equipment aims to assist the Haitian National Police against violence caused by "criminal entities."

There has been growing concern about this country whose president was assassinated last year, suffering from a prolonged cholera epidemic and sexual violence against women, children, and men by gangs.

The Haitian government has also urged countries like Canada and the United States to provide security assistance.

The federal government says Canada will work with other international partners to help law enforcement in Haiti by training more police officers.

The statement did not include whether any additional police tools such as firearms and bulletproof vests were included in the shipment.

Canada’s ambassador to Haiti, Sébastien Carrier, also said on Twitter that they would not release numbers or models of the vehicles to avoid disclosing information to gangs in the country.

While Canada has pledged financial aid to Haiti in recent months, experts and activists who have closely followed events in the country over the past two decades say Haiti needs to be left alone.

Former Canadian Ambassador to Haiti Gil Rivard told CTV News in an interview, "We continue to say what we have long said, let Haiti decide its own fate."

Rivard, who served as ambassador between 2008 and 2010 and again in 2014, says Canada should not interfere in Haiti’s affairs until the country can reach an agreement between society and government to hold elections and establish governance.