Jonglei inaugurates new police trainees
by Philip Thon Aleu
June 27, 2011 (BOR) – A contingent of police trainees graduated on Monday in Bor, Jonglei state, ahead as a step toward boasting security ahead of south Sudan’s independence celebration in less than two weeks times.
“There are a lot of crimes in Jonglei,” said Kuol. “People take guns to raid cattle or abduct children or loot traders’ shops” he added.
Jonglei state is inhabited by cattle keeping communities that often engage in cattle rustling. Child abduction and competition over meagre resources has resulted in the killing of civilians and massive displacement.
WEAK POLICE, STRONG CRIMINALS
“The police lacks gun and it is very difficult to control armed criminals,” said Gabriel Duop Lam, Jonglei, state minister of law enforcement on Monday, in what appeared as reaction to complaints raised by the Bor county commissioner, Maker Lual Kuol, on police’s reluctance to secure villages.
“If the police can protect money in banks, why not cattle in the villages?” said Maker Lual Kuol, adding, “both money and cattle are national resources that should be protected”.
Governor Kuol expressed hope that the government of South Sudan, which will become the Republic South Sudan on 9 July, will equip police to address “the chaos” in Jonglei state.
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George Bol
Jonglei inaugurates new police trainees
Police need guns to stop arm criminals in Jonglei. You are right mr Minister. There is no way a police can arrest the arm criminals. The police must have guns to do the job of gunning down the criminals by force.
Aleu
Jonglei inaugurates new police trainees
That is very good question raise by Lual Kuol. If the polices are able to protect Banks from criminals then, yes, they should be able to protect community too.
AtuotInPacific
Jonglei inaugurates new police trainees
I agree with George Bol and the complaining minister. If police do not have guns/arms then, why called them police in the first place?,crowd controllers is the ideal for them.
And why don’t both governments(jonglei and GOSS)provide arms to police? is it constitutional that police in south Sudan do not carry arm?
Apash Parau
Bigcat
Jonglei inaugurates new police trainees
Jonglei state all well trained today later tomorow if some communities invole in fighting between each other. the jonglei state are those to become the first thieves to stealed the civilian cattle or goat/sheep. such incendent happen early this when some community fight in twic east county. jonglei police looted houses and animals. but the state government was sillent but he now before the police? what is he telling the police! go and loot civilian later or what?
Bold
Jonglei inaugurates new police trainees
You the people blaming police of not protecting the cattle while proctecting banks, you first need to know the different between banks and cattle. First of all
Bank is something stationed in one place and it can take one to three police to secure it. Cattle move all over the forest and that need hundred of thousand of polices to cover the forest of the whole state.
I am saw some of you asking why are they called police if they don’t have guns. They do have but it is the same guns that the criminals have. People/criminal fear police only if they dont what the police have.
The security of cattle by the police need helicopter that would fly over head and track down those gangs. That is what the police in South Sudan need as a whole but the police dept don’t know what is their challenges and what they need to secure their mandate.
This is my first post in more than a year since people campaigning rebellion and tribalism on this website. I made a very agressive commend to see if the web master really review and knew about those toxic commend being posted, absolutely they do and my commend was deleted
In matter of minutes.
B Manyang