Sergeants must make police “less vulnerable to corruption” – Nyusi

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Sergeants must make police “less vulnerable to corruption” – Nyusi

4:16 CAT | 26 Aug 2016

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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday declared that trained police sergeants must make the police force less vulnerable to the corruption which can divert it away from its mission to fight crime.

Nyusi was speaking at the inauguration of the mid-level School for Police Sergeants at Metuchira, in the central province of Sofala, which provides 18 month courses for sergeants.

The purpose of the new school, he stressed, is to train intermediate police cadres “capable of guaranteeing the correct application of operational plans, as well as supervising and controlling the force”.

“It is our wish that the sergeants to be trained in Metuchira should be incisive in preventing and fighting against the misconduct of policemen which, on some occasions, damages the integrity and good image of the force”, said Nyusi.

He demanded that the school should seek teach its students technical and professional skills, and also ethical and moral values so that the sergeants who graduate should meet “high standards of patriotism, a sense of duty and of the defence of the legitimate interests of citizens and of the state”.

The sergeants’ school, Nyusi added, fills a gap between basic police training and the police academy. He believed it will strengthen the discipline and operational capacity of the police.

Sergeants, he continued, are the link between the higher command of the police and the rank and file policemen. It was up to them to ensure discipline, and the zealous compliance with missions and instructions from superior officers.

“Sergeants have the responsibility to cultivate the high standards of professional ethics that we desire from our police, so that the police faithfully complies with the task of maintaining law and order, without ever damaging the rights of citizens”, the President stressed. “Citizens must see in the police a force that defends them, and to whom they can resort when they are threatened by criminals”.

Source: AIM