Diplomatic Protection Police Unit Officers Graduate
More than 40 officers from the Diplomatic Protection Unit have graduated at the Dr. John Garang Unified Training Centre after two months intensive training on police law, protection of diplomats, riot control including international regulations and norms. 24 March 2013 The Diplomatic Protection Unit march during the graduation in Juba. [Juma John Stephen] By Juma John Stephen JUBA, 24 March 2013 [Gurtong] – Speaking during the ceremony the Minister of Interior, Gen, Alison Manani Magaya said the Ministry is going train more on policing. “This is a very important day for us in the Ministry of Interior as we are graduation yet another second batch of young officers to join the Diplomatic Protection Unit. Right from the beginning when we are set the action plan for the transformation of the Police Service, Action Plan 2011-2015, with the pillars that were set for the establishment of a new unit and one of these units is the Diplomatic Protection Unit,” Gen. Manani said. “This came as a result of our realization to have this unit trained made to understand the role they should play to protect the personnel who are serving in this country, as such we are very happy when some of our friends helped us,” he added. “We are planning that the number should rise but this will depend on our resources because the mission is growing, the UN mission is growing so we need more in this unit,” he said. The Inspector General for South Sudan National Police Service, Gen. Pieng Deng Kuol called upon the new recruits to understand the people they are trained to protect. “This unit is a very important Unit that is to protect the representatives of the world wide presidents. The Ambassadors are the small presidents in this country that is why they are flying their country’s flags,” Gen. Pieng said. “Somebody flying a flag of a country he must be a very important person and this is what you people the members of the Diplomatic Protection Unit must know who you are protecting. You are protecting a president who is permanently staying in your country,” he added. The Commissioner of UN Police, Dr. Fred Igga, said the mission will cooperate with the National Police Service to train police personnel in emergency response mechanism to handle incidents involving member’s of the Diplomatic Corp. Posted in: Home, Foreign Relations, Governance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
