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80 Rwandan Police officers set for UN peacekeeping missions

Xinhua, January 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

Eighty Rwanda National Police Individual Police Officers (IPOs), including 73 female, will on Sunday leave the country for year-long peacekeeping operations in four separate United Nations missions, officials said on Thursday.

Majority of the female peacekeepers will be deployed under the United NationsAfrican Union Mission in Darfur (Unamid), while others will go to South Sudan (UNMISS), to Ivory Coast (UNOCI) Central African Republic, according to a Police statement.

Speaking at a pre-deployment briefing in Kigali, the Inspector General of Rwanda National Police, Emmanuel K. Gasana, challenged the officers to be focused to the mission mandate when they leave the country.

"Uphold the Rwandan and RNP values, work within the boundaries of your mission with maximum discipline," Gasana said.

He urged them to work with other peacekeepers, ensure continuous improvement in their tasks and foster peace and stability in their respective missions.

Rwanda Police currently maintains over 600 police officers in eight UN missions, about 21 percent of them females.

The missions are in Haiti, Mali, Darfur, Abyei, South Sudan, Ivory Coast, CAR and Liberia.

Rwanda is among the leading contributors of women Police officers in peacekeeping missions.

Rwanda's Chief Inspector of Police Antoinette Umuraza was in October appointed the chairperson of the United Nations Police ( UNPOL) Women Network under the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (Minusca). Endite