56 more Rwanda National Police Officers have arrived in Darfur, Sudan to serve a peace keeping mission under the United Nations Mission in (UNAMID) mandate.
The Police officers left Kigali Monday International AirPort at 6:00 am aboard RwandaAir, the national carrier. They will be joining other 185 Officers who are already on mission in the troubled Sudanese region
During the pre-deployment briefing on 2nd January, the IGP, Emmanuel Gasana urged the officers to observe discipline and professionalism while on the mission.
He also asked them to uphold the core values of the country and cooperate with other people for effective execution of mission duties.
The UNAMID Chief of staff, Commissioner of Police, Cyprien Gatete who was in the country at a time, appealed to the officers to be exemplary, work as a team and observe Rwanda’s image.
The officers, who will be on a one year mission, will be acting as advisors, especially in community policing, anti gender based violence measures and providing security in internally displaced camps.
This brings the number of police officers on peace keeping missions in Haiti, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sudan, to 472.
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