Mozambique: Mass promotion breaks discontent in the police ranks – O País

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Mozambique: Mass promotion breaks discontent in the police ranks – O País

11:45 CAT | 05 Jan 2021

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A total of 30,858 police officers, sergeants and officers are to be promoted [patented] in a process that marks the end of a long period in which the Ministry of the Interior failed to observe the regular progression of many members of the corporation.

On Wednesday (December 19), Nampula marked the beginning of the mass promotion of members of the police corporation, breaking the long wait that many people active in Law and Order had to endure in their wait for career progression and promotion.

At national level, 30,858 senior officers, junior officers, sergeants and police officers will be covered, 25% of whom are already in the reserve because they have reached either the number of years of work or the age necessary to become reservists.

“The patenting process of these 30,858 covers [also] members who joined the Police of the Republic of Mozambique in 1974, who are combatants of the National Liberation Struggle, colleagues who are from the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth courses, colleagues who came from the extinct Troop of the Border Guard and others who came from various State services, whose law gave them statutes of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique,” general commander of the Police Bernardino Rafael said.

Bernardino Rafael promised that, from now on, progressions and promotions would be regular and follow the internal requirements of the Ministry of Interior. “From now on there will be promotions in a normal process, not in a mass process like this, where careers, promotions and progressions follow,” he said.

For a long time, only those trained in Matalane and the Academy of Police Sciences benefited from patenting, progressions and promotions, omitting from the process the “battalions” of men and women who came into the police force in any of the other ways mentioned by the chief of police.

After 28 years in the police, Maomade Ali was promoted to Chief Inspector – cause for celebration: “For me it means an advantage, more courage and motivation for work,” he enthused.

Consolada da Isabel, eight years in the corporation, was promoted to First Corporal. “It is to be commended, as the first time that I am patented,” she said.

And as police officers who have sworn to serve the country, there is provision for any mission. “I have not yet had the opportunity to go to the province of Cabo Delgado, but any time I am asked to, I will enforce the order,” Zubo Ussene, promoted to Chief Sergeant of the Police, promised.

Source: O País