{"id":25190,"date":"2016-05-09T01:18:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T01:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gicumbi-youth-volunteers-discuss-crime-prevention\/"},"modified":"2016-05-09T01:18:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T01:18:37","slug":"gicumbi-youth-volunteers-discuss-crime-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gicumbi-youth-volunteers-discuss-crime-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Gicumbi: Youth volunteers discuss crime prevention measures"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Thirty eight members of Rwandan Youth Volunteers in Community Policing Organisation (RYVCPO) from the University of Technology and Arts of Byumba (UTAB) in Gicumbi District have recommitted to strengthen awareness campaign against crime.}<\/p>\n

They also agreed to bring on board more youth to join the youth organisation to strengthen its community policing performance. <\/p>\n

They made the commitment during a meeting with the District Community Liaison Officer Inspector of Police (IP) Alphonse Kayonga, last week.<\/p>\n

IP Kayonga enlightened them about their role in crime prevention and how they can bring about change in their society.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll crimes can be prevented or reduced if we actively work together to identify and apprehend those involved. Some of these wrongdoers are known in communities, that\u2019s why we believe your contribution in crime prevention is crucial,\u201d said IP Kayonga.<\/p>\n

He also urged them to reach out to their fellow youth that could be involved in drug related crimes, counsel them or report them to be rehabilitated.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can only achieve your goal of ensuring public safety through community policing; you have to always remind the public that ensuring security begins with an individual,\u201d said IP Kayonga<\/p>\n

He spoke at length about human trafficking and urged them to make it part of their priorities in the crime prevention programmes.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally, traffickers pose as well-wishers who have a lot to offer; at times they take advantage of one\u2019s vulnerability and play around one\u2019s desires to make them believe that they have a lot to offer them,\u201d IP Kayonga said.<\/p>\n

He farther pointed out that; \u201cStudents are sometimes promised scholarships while graduates are sometimes made to believe that they would get good jobs abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n

The end result, he said, victims end up being exploited and subjected to varied forms of abuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cBesides the fact that traffickers can lure their victims basing on their vulnerabilities, they can sometimes use violence, threats, blackmail, false promises, deception and manipulation to trap the victim into several ugly exploitations,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

The coordinator of RYVCPO at the University, Emmanuel Nganeyezu reminded his colleagues that, \u201cthe role of this organization is to have an impact in the general security status in our country, but also looking at the welfare of the people, so we have to walk the rhythm, be more innovative in our awareness campaigns to ensure that people understand a language of prevention rather than fighting a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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