In Kalemie, Tanganyika province, MONUSCO held, from 14 October to 14 November, a training session for 37 PNC officers on “communication; the trainer and the adult trainee; pedagogical methods and means; and the organization and facilitation of a training activity.”

This training, delivered as a quick-impact project worth US$ 52,518, was part of activities of the Mpyana island of stability in Manono territory.

The objective was to enable the new Tanganyika province to have PNC commissioned and noncommissioned officers able not only to train other police personnel in the Democratic Republic of the Congo but also to represent the DRC within the multinational peacekeeping and peacebuilding force.

Upon completion of this training, out of the 37 trainees, 33 including 3 women were declared qualified as police trainers.

Such training, which helps reinforce the capacity of the PNC, represents one of the main focus areas of the police component of MONUSCO, the representative of the UN police said.

For his part, General Yav Mukaya, Divisional Commissioner of the PNC, called on the new trainers, as “pioneers to ensure training at the police academy of Tanganyika” and to “be committed, courageous and disciplined.”

Amuri Aleka