{"id":37657,"date":"2018-06-07T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T10:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rib-officers-to-get-special-uniform\/"},"modified":"2018-06-09T17:16:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T17:16:33","slug":"rib-officers-to-get-special-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rib-officers-to-get-special-uniform\/","title":{"rendered":"RIB officers to get special uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIB took over some of the functions formerly exercised by the Rwanda National Police, such as criminal and counter-terrorism investigation, economic and financial crimes investigation and crime intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the press, Wednesday, RIB&#8217;s Secretary General, Col. Jeannot Ruhunga, said the new uniform will be unveiled soon. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, what distinguished us from others was a duty card that indicated that one worked for the judicial sector. Now, we&#8217;ve decided to bring in a special uniform that clearly be used to identify a RIB officer from other law enforcers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>RIB announced that it will take up to four months for the investigators to have the said uniform.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda Investigation Bureau has powers to arrest and detain suspects in criminal cases; restrict access to an area or set up a roadblock for the purposes of maintaining security, preventing and detecting crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Officiating the Bureau, 463 police officers previously working under CID plus other officers from different departments were also transferred to RIB, immediately shedding off their status as police officers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25685 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umunyamabanga_mukuru_wa_rib_col_jeannot_ruhunga-befb5.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB)&#039; Secretary General, Col. Jeannot Ruhunga\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25684 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/icyicaro_cya_rib_ku_kimihurura-88ff3.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) General HeadQuarters in Kimihurura\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from the recently established Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) will soon be given a uniform that will distinguish their identity from other law enforcers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37657","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37657"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37657"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}