Western Bahr el Ghazal training 250 police personnel

September 14, 2015 (WAU) – The govenor of South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal state, Rizik Zackaria Hassan launched on Monday training of 250 new police personnel.

The move to recruit new personnel, Hassan said, was requested for through the president by the state government owing to the lack of young officers in the state.

It targets people from the three counties in the state, including Wau municipal council.

Hassan advised the trainees to desist from tribalism practices in the training camp and and focus on the various courses that will be offered during the training programme.

Those being trained, he said, would be first to be recruited in to the police after the last month’s signing of the long-awaited peace accord between government and the rebels.

According to the governor, the state will soon graduate another batch of about horse-users who will use 30 horses to maintain proper security, law and order in the state.

Hassan further revealed that the new policemen approved to him by president Salva Kiir would be incorporated into the existing forces to tackle insecurity in the border state.

Aged from 18-25 years, trainees must have at least completed primary school education.

Meanwhile, the trained 40 horse users will be the first personnel within the police department to use horses for security-related purposes in the world’s youngest nation.

(ST)