{It is essential that Police officers put into practice the best practices learnt from peacekeeping missions to ensure a crime-free society and further realize the force’s mandate of making people feel safe, involved and reassured. }
The Inspector General of Police, Emmanuel K. Gasana made the remarks on March 3 while debriefing thirteen Individual Police Officers (IPOs), who returned home on March 1 after successfully completing their one year peacekeeping mission under the United Nations Operation in Ivory Coast (ONUCI).
In a debriefing held at the Rwanda National Police (RNP) General Headquarters in Kacyiru, IGP Gasana welcomed them back home and thanked them for the good conduct during their mission spell.
He further challenged them to contribute to ongoing policing programmes back home by putting into practice what they learnt from the mission.
Discipline, professionalism and being result-oriented, he said, should define them in the new tasks they will take up.
RNP maintains about 600 officers in eight missions. Others are Haiti, Sudan, Mali, Abyei, Liberia, South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
RNP started its peacekeeping operations in 2005 and Rwandan police officers have been credited for the outstanding performance and going beyond to introducing home-development ideas to support community development in areas of their operations.
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