Politique

Over 280 Gendarmes Acquire Tactical Skills

The Secretary of State in charge of the National Gendarmerie closed the 37^th session of the 2^nd Technical Aptitude course on September 9, 2016 in Yaounde.

The Yaounde Gendarmerie Training Centre has graduated the 37^th batch of trainees of the 2^nd Technical Aptitude General Service course. The 289 trainees who spent five months at the High Command of Schools and Training Centre in Camp Yeyap, received end-of-course testimonials on September 9, 2016, during a ceremony chaired by the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Defence, in charge of the National Gendarmerie, Jean Baptiste Bokam.

Mr Bokam said the training of Gendarmerie personnel is a priority of the hierarchy with the objective to have a well trained military capable of defending the territorial integrity of the country as well as securing the population and property. The training course, he added, comes at a particular context of the promulgation of the revised Penal Code which is a daily working document of the judicial police officers that they are and the deployment of two police units of the Gendarmerie to the MINUSCA peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic. The training they have acquired should therefore enable them to perform better in the face of security challenges.