50 Police Officers preparing to go for the United Nations missions are in undergoing a one week training on Gender Based Violence at Police General Head Quarters in Kacyiru.
The training aimed on equipping the police officers with necessary skills that will enable them to better address gender based violence cases while on mission areas.
Apart from GBV, the trainees are set to learn other lessons like, mission experience, Gender promotion and leadership skills.
The training was organised by Rwanda National Police and funded by UNDP. The 50 police officers are drawn from different areas of the country.
Officiating at the opening ceremony, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Faustin Kalisa said such training was paramount to Police Officers preparing to go UN missions.
It is quite important that police officers get skills on GBV as it enables them to better address violence against women and girls.
“As the world is worried about violence done against women and girls, Rwanda has been ranked as the world leading country that deploys the highest number of female police officers to mission areas”, Kalisa
said.
MAXIM Rwendeye an official from UN who is in charge of GBV said UN shall continue to partner with Police to ensure women and girls are protected from all sorts of violence.
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