Thirty pioneers of the Professional Police Studies (PPS) program will graduate at the Kigali Institute of Education (KIE) campus. They will be awarded a bachelors degree of social sciences in police studies.
Police reports that 30 corps studied among others; criminology, forensic sciences, criminal law both general and special, and criminal procedures.
According to Chief Superintendent Elias Mwesigye, the acting director of the Human Resource Commissioner at Rwanda National Police, apart from police officers who will be graduating tomorrow, more police officers are undergoing the PPS program and would graduate in coming years.
He noted that PPS undergraduate program is cross cutting as it infuses law and police studies and that it will greatly facilitate Police officers in their policing duties.
PPS is a tripartite partnership between KIE, Teesside University in United Kingdom and Rwanda National Police to professionalize and build the capacity of the Police force.
Rwanda National Police also has partnerships with other higher institutions of learning in the land. They include National University of Rwanda and Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) where these institutions will provide lectures to Police officers in law and ICT respectively.
These universities have also designed the curriculum and provided lecturers who will teach at the National Police Academy in Musanze.
Rwanda National Police has prioritized capacity building for its Police force to enable them undertake their policing duties professionally.
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