Fourty Police officers, yesterday, started three-week training on basic multi-disciplinary approaches to manage Gender victims in a holistic manner.
The officers will, at the end of the course, be deployed in health centres and district hospitals in different parts of the country to assist GBV victims, including counseling and helping them get justice.
The training held at the Police Training School (PTS) in Gishari in Rwamagana District, was organized Rwanda National Police and funded by One-UN-Rwanda.
The officers will in the due course acquire techniques of handling and interviewing victims, witnesses and suspects.
Other topics to be covered include crime scene management, exhibit management and handling, investigating techniques and skills of collecting forensic evidence.
The government seven-year programme, partly, requires public institutions to continue to reinforce the anti-GBV measures to eliminate the vice and to establish a medical wing – Isange – for GBV victims at all health centres in the country as an effective way of giving victims timely holistic care.
As one of the effective ways to address cases of GBV and child abuse, Rwanda National Police, under the support of the First Lady, Jeannette Kagame, established Isange One-Stop Centre at the Police hospital in Kacyiru to offer free medical assistance to victims.
The package ranges from medical, psychological and legal support.
Since its establishment in 2009, the centre has treated over 5,000 victims, 88.9 percent of them females while 68.8 percent and 12.5 percent and minors and males respectively.
While officially opening the course, the Inspector General of Police Emmanuel K. Gasana said the course is “essential” to continue the force’s campaign against GBV and child abuse.
He urged them to use the chance to acquire more techniques that will facilitate them to execute their duties effectively and to realise the force’s mission.
Rwanda is currently seen as a centre and a model in combating GBV and was late last year approved by African countries to host a permanent secretariat to coordinate the continent’s activities in ending violence against women and girls.
RNP
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