Rwanda National Police is hosting a week-long Police Command Post Exercise (PCPX) codenamed “Solidarity” that began August 20 to 25/2012 at Kacyiru Police Headquarters.
The Exercise aims at promoting strengthening and perpetuating cooperation between EAPCCO members through information sharing and intelligence on cross-border and trans-national crime and criminals based on INTERPOL best practice as well as promote the increasing Police role in Peace Support Operations (PSO).
The Exercise is being conducted in specialized areas of Counter Terrorism (CT), Human Trafficking and Peace Support Operations(PSO).
The PCPX Exercise brings together ninety participants from 12 EAPCCO member states namely Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, Cyprus, Eritrea, Ethiopia and hosts Rwanda.
Parties involved include;Interpol, EAPCCO Secretariat, Eastern African Standby Force Coordination Mechanism (EASFCOM), Rwanda National Police and other selected partners with specific expertise.
APCCO, CAPCCO, WAPCCO Partners-UNODC, IOM, RECSA, AU, and UNPKO are among observers gracing the exercise.
The objective of this exercise is to bring EAPCCO law enforcers together in a theoretical training in three responsive areas and thereafter do a centrally controlled joint exercise with intent to put theory to practice.
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