Mozambique: Chapo calls on police “to do things differently”

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Mozambique: Chapo calls on police “to do things differently”

6:41 CAT | 19 May 2025

Photo: Notícias

Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Saturday urged the Mozambican police force (PRM) “to do things differently to achieve different results”, faced with the rise in organised crime.

The “ new phenomena” of transnational, organised crime, he said, includes kidnappings, trafficking in people, human body parts and drugs, and money laundering.

These crimes meant it is time for “far-reaching changes” to honour the 50th anniversary of the police.

Chapo urged all citizens to collaborate with the police. No matter how many changes might be made in the police, “if the citizens do not collaborate, we shall not achieve the desired results”.

“We are all called upon to cooperate in promoting our own security, and to denounce those who break the law”, he added.

Most members of the police are honest professionals, said Chapo, but “we also know there are some in the force who act in a way that contradicts the profile of the police force that we all want”.

Although there are only a few of them, he claimed, their behaviour means that “sometimes our police is regarded as the most visible face of corruption. This image must change!”

Chapo said he was therefore instructing the Interior Ministry and the General Command of the Police “to step up the level of training of members of the police, guaranteeing the indispensable values for the police to be a reference point, nationally and internationally”.

The values required, he added, are “ethics, morality, integrity, responsibility, competence and, above all, the value of serving the Mozambicam people”.

“We want a police force whose activity is focused on serving the citizen and the Mozambican nation”, stressed Chapo. “A police force whose authority is respected, and whose presence is cherished in recognition of its achievements”.

The president accepted that the police face a challenge in winning back the trust of citizens. The police “should cultivate ever more humanised behaviour resting on the law”.

Chapo told his audience that “together with the people and with the community, we shall build the Mozambique we want, a safe, united and cohesive Mozambique, peaceful, developed and prosperous”.

Source: AIM