Mozambique’s minister of the Interior wants much greater care in police recruitment

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Mozambique’s minister of the Interior wants much greater care in police recruitment

3:34 CAT | 11 Apr 2016

Mozambican Interior Minister Jaime Monteiro has demanded that much greater care be taken in recruiting new agents for the police force, to prevent criminals from infiltrating the police, reports Friday’s issue of the Maputo daily “Noticias”.

Monteiro was speaking at a ceremony where he swore into office Antonio Pelembe as the new commander of the Practical Police School at Matalana, in Maputo province, replacing Feliciano Chongo, who has been appointed director of doctrine and ethics in the General Command of the police.

At the same event, Ema Chambo and Zita Gabriel were sworn in as the new director and deputy director of human resources in the Interior Ministry.

Monteiro told the newly appointed officials that the norms governing the recruitment, selection and training of the police must be strictly applied. Only in that way would it be possible to prevent the entry into the police of “people linked to the world of crime, or who want to use the police uniform to commit abuses”.

“The Ministry of the Interior attributes great importance to the management of human resources”, he said, “since it recognizes that the men and women who are officers, sergeants and guards are the essential factor in complying with our mission. The training of our staff should be undertaken in a framework that favours the development of technical and professional skills, and ethical and moral principles, so that we can produce the best public servants”.

Addressing Pelembe in particular, Monteiro said the Practical Police School must, in a very short time, prove capable of improving discipline, order, hygiene and combat readiness among new recruits.

He wanted to see the school make available to the state police agents with tight discipline and strict professional ethics.

“We are aware that in order to achieve the results we want, our schools must assume a new posture in line with the need to train people who are imbued with the values of discipline, patriotism and a sense of mission which characterize a police professional”, declared Monteiro.

This, he added, would require “a profound transformation” in the organization, functioning and management of the school.

Source: AIM