Douala III Council: Newly Trained Municipal Police on the Field

Some 111 municipal police officers who underwent a six-week training at the gendarmerie camp in Mboppi, graduated in a solemn ceremony on Wednesday April 14 presided over by the Senior Divisional Officer for Wouri. Speaking during the ceremony, the second in command of the second gendarmerie region, Colonel Azew Landry said the 45-day training comprised civic education, technical aptitudes, discipline, notions of human rights as well as the respect for State emblems among many other things.

Meanwhile the Mayor Epoupa Bossanbo Valentin, said the training was the third in the series aimed at changing the mindset of the trainees in view of defining the role of the municipal police which is that of civil protection, hygiene and sanitation as well as enabling fluidity of circulation by avoiding wrong parking in the municipality. “The municipal police should not substitute the forces of law and order but act as their auxiliary. He congratulated the trainees for their assiduity during training and called on them to show exemplary conduct in the discharge of their duties.

The director of training, Biogolo Embolo Zephyrin said training which was geared at con...