{"id":2000108022,"date":"2026-04-09T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000108022"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:01:16","slug":"five-senior-officers-promoted-to-cp-as-president-kagame-elevates-over-5700-police-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/five-senior-officers-promoted-to-cp-as-president-kagame-elevates-over-5700-police-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Five senior officers promoted to CP as President Kagame elevates over 5,700 police personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the senior level, five officers have been promoted from Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) to Commissioner of Police (CP). These are Emmanuel Karasi, Bertin Mutezintare, Jean N\u00e9pomusc\u00e8ne Mbonyumuvunyi, Barth\u00e9lemy Rugwizangoga, and Fid\u00e8le Mugengana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten officers were promoted from Commissioner of Police (CSP) to Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP). They include Claude Bizimana, Adolphe Nyagatare, Rango Ndoli, Callixte Kalisa, Vincent Habintwari Bihigi, Antoine Munyampundu, Faustin Kalimba, Hodali Rwanyindo, Christian Safari, and Alexis Nyamwasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the broader category of senior and junior officers, five personnel were elevated from Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) to Commissioner of Police (CSP), while 94 moved from Superintendent of Police (SP) to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP). A further 161 officers were promoted from Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) to Superintendent of Police (SP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, 574 officers advanced from Inspector of Police (IP) to Chief Inspector of Police (CIP), and 17 were promoted from Assistant Inspector of Police (AIP) to Inspector of Police (IP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among non-commissioned officers and other ranks, 282 personnel were promoted from Staff Sergeant (S\/SGT) to Chief Sergeant (C\/SGT), while 763 moved from Sergeant (SGT) to Staff Sergeant (S\/SGT). At the lower levels, 1,886 officers were elevated from Corporal (CPL) to Sergeant (SGT), and 1,949 from Police Constable (PC) to Corporal (CPL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The promotions span all levels of the force and reflect ongoing efforts to strengthen capacity and leadership within the Rwanda National Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"in\" dir=\"ltr\">Itangazo ryo kuzamurwa mu ntera\/Notice on promotion <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/asRFywpMlc\">pic.twitter.com\/asRFywpMlc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rwanda National Police (@Rwandapolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rwandapolice\/status\/2042021649768206402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has promoted 5,746 personnel in the Rwanda National Police (RNP), according to an official notice issued on Thursday, April 9, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000108024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[151,69],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000108022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-editors-choice","tag-homehighlights","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000108024,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BldB4NT7.jpeg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":900,"height":600,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BldB4NT7.jpeg","width":150,"height":100},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BldB4NT7.jpeg","width":300,"height":200},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BldB4NT7.jpeg","width":768,"height":512},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BldB4NT7.jpeg","width":900,"height":600},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BldB4NT7.jpeg","width":900,"height":600}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000108022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000108022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000108022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000108026,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000108022\/revisions\/2000108026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000108024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000108022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000108022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000108022"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000108022"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000108022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}