SSNPS complete fourth sensitization workshop on CTBPS

26 Jan 2016

SSNPS complete fourth sensitization workshop on CTBPS

In an ongoing effort to create conditions for the safe return of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to the locations of their choice, South Sudan National Police Service (SSNPS) completed the fourth sensitization workshop on the operational delivery of the Confidence and Trust Building Policing Strategy (CTBPS). The course was supported by UNMISS Police as well as the Mission’s Human Rights and Child Protection Units.

Forty-five participants, including ten female officers, completed the course focusing on Human Rights, Child Protection, Sexual and Gender Based Violence and Community Policing and were equipped with the skills and knowledge on how to perform their duties aimed at increasing the confidence and security of the communities.

All participants were selected by the SSNPS Administration and underwent a special vetting process. They will be deployed to the police posts, located in Khor William and Gudele areas, which were identified as areas for voluntary return of IDPs.

UNPOL Chief of Operations, Mr. Emmanuel Butera, addressed the participants on behalf of the UNMISS Police Commissioner and stressed the importance of the right implementation of the skills gained during the workshop. “The lesson is covered, the knowledge is acquired, and the skills are captured. How you will use those skills is up to you now. Please make it useful, perform effectively to your maximum.”

“Communities are waiting for you; people of South Sudan are waiting for you. Please go out there and perform with those skills to help, to assist your brothers and sisters in South Sudan,” Mr. Butera added.
 
He also assured the attendees that UNMISS would continue supporting this programme to bring peace and stability to South Sudan.

The SSNPS Director for General Training, Major General Henry Danima Odu explained that during the last financial year, the SSNPS had trained one hundred and four officers in three sessions. Three hundred more will undergo similar training during seven two-week workshops from January to April of 2016.
 
“The community is expecting so much from us […] This programme is geared at building trust between the police and the community. Let the police respect the community and the community respect the police,” Mr. Danima appealed to the participants.

“Our philosophy is that the police is a friend and a servant of the community,” he added.

He also thanked the participants for their active involvement in the training process and UNMISS for the continuing support.
 
“Police is not a rank, the police is a task. You are given a mission. Wherever you are assigned, delivering services to the people that is a task by itself. And you have to do it in a right way,” said the Assistant Inspector General of Police for General Administration, Lieutenant General Abraham Manyat Peter addressing the participants of the course.

“You should be polite, organized, intelligent and you should have cooperation with everyone in the community,” he continued and stressed the importance of the CTBPS workshop