Mozambique: The importance of modernizing telecommunications for public security – Watch

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Mozambique: The importance of modernizing telecommunications for public security – Watch

9:07 CAT | 26 Aug 2024

Photo: Presidente Filipe Nyusi/Facebook

The modernization of telecommunications is essential in preventing and combating kidnappings and terrorism, President Filipe Nyusi said on Friday, in turn highlighting the importance of public safety for the country’s economic and social development.

Mozambique faces “a challenging context in terms of internal security, with the need to prevent and combat organized and transnational crime, such as kidnappings, car theft, drug trafficking and human trafficking, illegal immigration, smuggling and terrorism,” President Nyusi said.

The Mozambican head of state was speaking during the laying of the foundation stone for the construction of the Ministry of the Interior’s Integrated Information Centre, a project supported by South Korea.

Nyusi said that the centre would help modernise communications between the units of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) and the National Public Security Service (SENSAP), with an operations rooms, the automation of police vehicle mobility and monitoring and control of traffic flow.

The initiative envisages the introduction of cutting-edge digital technology, enabling, above all, the automatic verification of fingerprints by the National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic), Filipe Nyusi added.

“This is the beginning of a new era in the management of information and security emergencies in our country and is another step in the relationship between Mozambique and Korea in the area of the security of people, goods and infrastructure,” Nyusi declared.

The Mozambican president noted that the project was conceived in 2015 as the result of the government’s commitment to reinforcing its guarantee of public order, security and tranquillity.

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Nyusi stated that the Ministry of the Interior’s Integrated Information Centre would have its central base in the country’s capital and branches in the provinces of Maputo, in the central region, and Nampula, in the north, and will have an “evolutionary nature”, with the ultimate aim of covering the entire national territory.

Among the main challenges in the country’s criminal environment, the authorities highlight terrorism in Cabo Delgado, a province ravaged by an armed insurgency since 2017, and kidnappings, which have resurfaced in recent years in provincial capitals.

The Mozambican police have registered, up to March of this year, a total of 185 cases of kidnapping. At least 288 people have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in this type of crime since 2011, Mozambique’s Minister of the Interior has previously announced.