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STORY: AMISOM trains South West State Police on handling

public order crimes


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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/SOMALI NATURAL SOUND
DATELINE: 11/JULY/2018, BAIDOA, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot, police officers attending the workshop


2. Med shot, police officers attending the workshop
3. Med shot, Mohamed Yasin Abdullahi, Director-General of South West
Ministry of Security, Ibrahim Hussein Hassan, Commander of Mines Action in
South West and John Ambayo, AMISOM Police Team Leader on Police
Reform, Restructuring during the workshop
4. Close up shot, Yasin Abdullahi, the Director-General of South West Ministry of
Security during the workshop

5. Med shot, police officers attending the workshop

6. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH). John Ambayo, Acting AMISOM Police Coordinator


for South West State
“One of the key things of this course is to make sure that the police officers in
South West state are able to handle public events (occurring) in a peaceful
environment and the same time when there is public disorder or strike,
riotous situation for that matter, they should be able to decisively deal and
restore order”,

7. Wide shot, police officers attending the workshop

8. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH). John Ambayo, Acting AMISOM Police Coordinator


for South West State
“I want to say that in Somalia peace is eventually returning and therefore
there is need for police to begin focusing on how to handle public affairs. We
have peaceful events like public celebrations which need to be policed by the
police and then sometimes we have also the public disorder, the riotous
situations, there is strikes for which we need to equip the police officers to
handle”

9. Med shot, police officers attending the workshop


10. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH). John Ambayo, Acting AMISOM Police Coordinator
for South West State
“During this exercise, especially the course on public disorder within the
overall public order management training we consider them [those involved
in disorderly acts] momentary opponents, they are not enemies and,
therefore, the use of force, the rules of engagement are not like the ones
applied in fighting an enemy. We are expected (in such cases) to use less
force to minimize casualties.”

11. Wide shot, police officers attending the workshop

12. SOUNDBITE (SOMALI). Mohamed Yasin Abdullahi, Director General of


South West Ministry of Security,
“Today, I presided over a workshop on public order management on how to
prevent demonstrations and mange public events like the celebrations we
held on 1st July [Somalia’s Independence Day] and to maintain security and
prevent crimes at other events where people gather. The training focused on
those issues.”

13. Close up shot, police officers attending the workshop

14. SOUNDBITE (SOMALI). Ibrahim Hussein Hassan, Commander of Mines


Action in South West State,
“Today 10th July, a workshop was opened for a group of Somali police forces
especially those who operate in Bay region. It is part of trainings AMISOM is
conducting for the forces. This training that opened here is about upholding
human rights and improving the relations between the police and the public.”

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AMISOM trains South West State Police on handling public order crimes

Baidoa, 12 July 2018- The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has
organized a 10-day workshop to train South West State Police Force on handling
public order crimes as security improves in most parts of the country.

The workshop on public order management is part of AMISOM’s transition plan


to equip Somali security institutions and gradually hand over responsibilities to
them in a condition-based process as per the United Nations Security Council
resolution passed late last year.
The exercise, attended by 30 police officers drawn from various parts of the
South West state, will focus on crowd control and how to handle various public
crimes, among them, riots and violent demonstrations.

Speaking at the workshop, the Acting AMISOM Police Coordinator for South West
State, John Ambayo, said the aim of the training is to teach the officers how to
deal with acts of public disorder in the region.

“We have peaceful events like public celebrations which need to be policed and
then sometimes we also have incidents of public disorder, the riotous situations,
strikes for which we need to equip the police officers to handle,” Mr. Ambayo,
who is also the Team Leader of Police Reforms Advisors in South West State, said.
.

He noted that since peace has resumed in most regions in the country, after years
of civil war, there was need for police to start focusing on how to handle public
order crimes in the new environment.

The AMISOM Police officer advised those undergoing the training to view
individuals involved in riots and strikes as momentary opponents and use less
force, when restoring order, to minimize casualties.

The Director General of the Ministry of Security in South West state, Mohamed
Yasin Abdullahi, praised AMISOM Police for mentoring their counterparts in
Somalia noting that officers in the region will now have skills to deal with public
order crimes.

Similar sentiments were shared by the Commander of Mines Action in the state,
Ibrahim Hussein Hassan, who said the workshop was critical for officers in Bay
region in their efforts to restore peace and security.

“This training that opened here is about upholding human rights and improving
the relations between the police and the public,” said Mr. Hassan as he
commended AMISOM Police for organizing the exercise.

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