Police commander calls for zeal and responsibility

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Police commander calls for zeal and responsibility

11:41 CAT | 07 Apr 2018

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The General Commander of the Mozambican police, Bernardino Rafael, on Wednesday demanded zeal and responsibility from 36 officers promoted to leadership positions in the police force.

Among those sworn into office were provincial commanders, provincial directors of public order, and senor officers in the riot police, the coastal, river and lake police, and the logistics and administration departments.

Speaking after the swearing-in ceremony, Rafael said Mozambicans expect from the newly promoted officers a significant improvement in public order and security.

“We expect from you a speedy response to all occurrences that happen under your responsibility, in clearing up criminal cases”, he added.

The police leadership, he said, must produce results, and officers could only expect to remain in leadership positions if the public trusted them. “When they lose trust, they don’t stay”, Rafael declared. “So we decided immediately to refresh our leadership”. Officers who did not bring positive results could not be trusted.

He announced that, in the first 100 days since he had taken office as general commander, in late November last year, he had appointed or promoted 5,104 policemen as corporals, sergeants and inspectors. He had also formally appointed 1,992 policemen to management positions, where they had already been working but without due regularisation.

Such measures improved morale, he said, and worked as incentives in the fight against crime.
Rafael warned that “we want police officers who display integrity, obedience and respect for the fundamental rules of our institution”.

He described changes in the force as “renewal in continuity”, which was “a permanent, continual and unstoppable process”.

Source: AIM