North-Kivu, June 24-26 - A team of MONUSCO police officers on a mission to the territory of Walikale, North-Kivu, from 24 to 26 June 2014, held an awareness sessions and operational capacity-building for Congolese police officers on maintenance and restoration of peace and public order in keeping with human rights standards.

Technical and logistic support was provided by MONUSCO with a view to promoting civilians’ protection and restoration of state authority in islands of stability which are areas liberated from the presence of armed groups.

The training program included two main themes: Background on Police Action and Crowds Psychology. Major concepts for each theme were reviewed. Under the first theme, the following items were addressed: how to set up public force; who should have the authority over the public force; how to make requests; how to issue warnings; under the second theme, participants studied men’s conduct in various situations: when he is alone, when in group, when in peaceful crowd and hostile crowd; as well as the conduct police personnel should adopt when faced with peaceful or hostile crowd and the rules of conduct for police officer.

Representatives of MONUSCO police (UNPOL) turned over 4 modules MROP for PNC mobile intervention company (CMI).

Dombwa Celestine