STORY:

AMISOM POLICE TO DEPLOY IN SOMALIAS

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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/SOMALI/NATURAL SOUND
DATELINE: 2015/09/30 MINNESOTA, USA

SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot, The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African
Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Maman Sidikou briefing
the
MinneapolisMetroTransitPoliceChiefJohnHarrington
2. Med shot, The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union
Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Maman Sidikou briefing the
MinneapolisMetroTransitPoliceChiefJohnHarrington

3. SOUNDBITE (English)
The Special Representative of the AU Commission
Chairperson for Somalia and Head of AMISOM Amb. Maman Sidikou,
We
(shall) assess and see which other areas that they (Police) can come and deal
with law and order and have the army move to go and fight Al-Shabaab
wherever they are. So, its good we are focusing on community policing
because thats the way to go in Somalia. One of the issues AMISOM forces
are facing is that yes people realize that we are doing good work for them;
but we are not really that together. Unless you have the community, you are
just shooting in the dark. So, thats one of the decisions that has made by
African Union and the UN benchmarking to look at how we fare so far; and
the decision was made to go towards Police.
4. Med shot, The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union
Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Maman Sidikou briefing the
MinneapolisMetroTransitPoliceChiefJohnHarrington
5. SOUNDBITE (English)
MinneapolisMetroTransitPoliceChiefJohn
Harrington,

I have had a lot of conversations with the community here ever

since I came back. The question of how safe it is and how much it has
improved has come up. I was able to give them what I thought was a very
accurate and a very positive report of how much safe it has gotten and how
much better the Government system has improved and how much AMISOM
is doing in terms of community policing that they are doing and the work that

the Somali Police Force are doing in terms of developing their own
investigatory, their own tactical approaches.
6. Wide shot, the
MinneapolisMetroTransitPoliceChiefJohnHarrington
briefing
The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union
Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Maman Sidikou

SCRIPT
MINNESOTA, USA
The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African
Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Maman Sidikou has said that
starting March 2016, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) will deploy
police in the liberated areas in line with the recent UN Security Council resolution.

While on a working visit to Minnesota in the United States of America, Ambassador

Sidikou met and held discussions with Mr. John Harrington, the Minneapolis Metro
Transit Police Chief. Minnesota has the largest population of Somalis in the United
States.

Ambassador Sidikou briefed Mr. Harrington on the progress made in Somalia and the
upcoming deployment of the police in the various sectors, as well as recruitment of
Somali police personnel in the liberated areas in order to boost community policing.
He added that this is also in line with the provisional Federal constitution in which all
regions are entitled to a police force.

Sidikou said, We (shall) assess and see which other areas that they (Police) can
come and deal with law and order and have the army move to go and fight
Al-Shabaab wherever they are. So, its good we are focusing on community policing
because thats the way to go in Somalia. One of the issues AMISOM forces are facing
is that yes, people realize that we are doing good work for them; but we are not
really that together. Unless you have the community, you are just shooting in the
dark. So, thats one of the decisions that has made by African Union and the UN

benchmarking to look at how we fare so far; and the decision was made to go
towards Police.

During the meeting, Mr. Harrington hailed the initiative to deploy Police in the
regions, and added that it would make the public appreciate the Police and enhance
community policing with the civilian community sharing information to combat
extremism and terrorism.

Mr. Harrington who recently visited Somalia to learn and share policing experiences
with the Somali Police Force (SPF) and the AMISOM Police, said his visit had
generated a lot of interest in the Somali community living in Minneapolis.

I have had a lot of conversations with the community here ever since I came back.
The question of how safe it is and how much it has improved has come up. I was able
to give them what I thought was a very accurate and a very positive report of how
much safe it has gotten and how much better the Government system has improved
and how much AMISOM is doing in terms of community policing that they are doing
and the work that the Somali Police Force are doing in terms of developing their own
investigatory, their own tactical approaches, said Harrington.

END