{"id":10343,"date":"2013-09-13T01:01:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T01:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/34-police-officers-arrested-over-corruption\/"},"modified":"2013-09-13T01:01:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T01:01:11","slug":"34-police-officers-arrested-over-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/34-police-officers-arrested-over-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"34 Police Officers Arrested over Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3558 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pol-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Police on Wednesday released the latest report in its campaign against corruption in the force, in which 34 officers were arrested in various graft-related crimes.}}<\/p>\n<p>ACP Damas Gatare, the Commissioner for Public Relations and Community Policing said those arrested include six junior officers while others are Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) and Police Constables (PC).<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested between May and September this year. They received bribes ranging from Rwf1000 to Rwf1 million.<\/p>\n<p>He said some of the officers took bribes to give out driving licences, alter traffic fine receipts given to traffic offenders and to include their colleagues on the list of those going for peacekeeping missions.<\/p>\n<p>Others received bribes from drug dealers to facilitate them in their illegal businesses, he added.<\/p>\n<p>31 of the arrested officers have so far been sentenced to different terms by the Police Disciplinary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that 27 of the officers will be discharged from the force while four others will serve their sentence and be reintegrated back in the force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorruption is zero-tolerance in Rwanda National Police and this should be a warning to even other officers that could be involved in such tendencies,\u201d ACP Gatare said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank the public for their continued partnership to fight crimes, including corruption. We were able to apprehend these officers because of the credible information given to us by the public,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Files of civilian accomplices, he said, were forwarded to prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>source:RNP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Police on Wednesday released the latest report in its campaign against corruption in the force, in which 34 officers were arrested in various graft-related crimes.}} ACP Damas Gatare, the Commissioner for Public Relations and Community Policing said those arrested include six junior officers while others are Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) and Police Constables (PC). 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