A batch of 200 police recruits who successfully completed six months of training in Yei River State has been urged to maintain law, order and security.
Speaking during Saturday’s graduation ceremony, State Governor Emmanuel Anthony Adil urged the police to maintain professionalism in the delivery of services to citizens at the grass roots level.
“Go and work diligently, be polite and cooperate with civilians if you want to access information to help in combating criminal activities. If you don’t cooperate, you will not get information from civilians and if you mislead them, never expect cooperation from them,” he said.
The state police commissioner, Yoasa Lujang Kamba said the newly recruited officers were trained on police code of conduct, aspects of human rights and peace building as well as communication skills.
“During their training, they acquired knowledge on police code of conduct, police acts and how to enforce law and order,” he explained.
The deputy mayor of Yei municipality, Khamis Noah Kissanga urged the police recruits to help combat crimes in rural and urban parts of the state.
Meanwhile, the Archbishop of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of South Sudan, Elias Taban lauded state authorities for improving the rule of law.
He appealed to the state government to ensure training of more police force to reduce crimes in the state.
For his part, Interior Minister Michael Chiangjiek congratulated the officers and assured them of his ministry’s readiness to train more forces to boost security and protect civilians.
“I will order the Inspector General of Police to ensure that more other 200 police forces are recruited and trained from all the 13 counties of Yei River State because some people trained in the town will not be ready to work in the counties,” he said.
The training of the police in the state was supported by Water is Basic, a United States-based charity organization, in collaboration with Evangelical Presbyterian Church of South Sudan.