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Mozambique: Police infested with criminals, admits commander – AIM
8:35 CAT | 13 May 2024
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The General Commander of the Mozambican police force, Bernadino Rafael, has admitted that the police is infested with criminals, according to a report in Sunday’s issue of the independent newssheet “Carta de Moçambique”.
The paper has obtained a police document, dated 9 May, in which Rafael admits that police agents are involved in crimes such as kidnapping and robberies.
The document is on headed paper from “MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL COMMAND OF THE PRM, OFFICE OF THE COMMANDER”, and bears the title “INSTRUCAO No. 05/CGPRM/GCG/100/2024”.
The document begins “Recently, the General Command of the PRM has noted with the greatest concern the occurrence of crimes involving members of the PRM, practiced with the use of firearms, notably robberies and kidnappings”.
Mozambican society has long been convinced that the wave of kidnappings that have shaken Mozambican cities since 2011 must enjoy the complicity of members of the police, but it still comes as something of a surprise to read an instruction from the most senior police officer in the land admitting this.
But Rafael does not have any immediate solution. Instead, his document says “in order to ensure a deep and comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, I am instructing all the branches and directorates of the General Command of the PRM, the Provincial Commands of the PRM, police teaching establishments, and Units of the Special and Reserve Forces to undertake a reflection on the reasons why members of the PRM are involved in criminal activities and to present recommendations for solving the problem”.
He gave all the police units a deadline of 30 days to present their recommendations.
Rafael has thus finally admitted what Attorney-General Beatriz Buchili and many other senior state officials have been saying for years – that organized crime has infiltrated the police, which is one of the reasons for the failure to bring to justice the masterminds behind the wave of kidnappings.
The document appears genuine, and so far there have been no denials of its authenticity.
Source: AIM
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