Hon Magaya warns police to stop violence on citizens South Sudan TV Juba, 20/7/2012 – The minister for Interior in the government of South Sudan, Alison Manani Magaya has warned police to stop violence against citizens and work for the peace of the country. Hon Magaya said this on Tuesday when he visited Rejaf to prepare police batch 16 for graduation. He told batch 16 that beating citizens senselessly is not the professional way of practicing police globally. The minister revealed that the government vision is professional police not the type of police that beat and rob people during night hours. He advised batch 16 police to not to follow the past mistakes committed by police saying the culture they had is different due to past civil war. “The type of police we have right now is not normal police; they are political police because most of them were previous militias without police background; some even don’t salute when seeing an officer passing-by so don’t follow them but change them”, the minister advised. He as well disclosed that the government had come out with new policy of transfer stating that no police will stay in one place for more than two years; just two years then transfer. Hon Magaya further revealed that the students dismissed from Khartoum’s Al-Ribat College for police will graduate with certificates of the college particularly batch 63. He said that batch 64 will have their certificate from Rejaf College for police. In the same occasion, the minister of Information and Broadcasting, Dr Barnaba Marial Benjamin urged the police to show respect, love and care for the people of South Sudan stressing that without professional work people will not realise peace. Dr Benjamin also warned them against tribalism saying South Sudanese are all equal before law and South Sudan’s transitional constitution. “In a place where there is no police there is death, because police is life and security, so please try to use the knowledge you are getting from this college to create peace within your communities”, he said. Batch 16th is the first batch which will be graduating from Rejaf College of police. It consists of cadets dismissed from Khartoum as a result of clashes over Heglig earlier this year, and the other group are the students who finished from Uganda waiting for commissioning from the President of Republic, Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit. The students dismissed from Khartoum’s Al-Ribat College were 71 men and 14 ladies while the ones from Uganda were 38 men and 11 ladies totaling 134 students. The Interior minister also said that the government is planning to build a secondary school for police and possibly postgraduate studies in the nearest future.
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