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The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Emmanuel K Gasana has urged Rwandan artistes to be police partners , uphold national values and use their talents to echo the ideal of community policing and crime prevention in particular.
He noted that their talents contributes to the country’s transformation process in terms of social and economic development, but reiterated that areas needs a safe and secure breeding ground,in which they should be fully involved in order to successfully establish it.
The Police Chief made the remarks on September 27 as he delivered a lecture to 207 artistes that are currently undertaking a civic course at Nkumba Ubutore Training Centre in Burera district.
In his message to the artistes, IGP Gasana pointed out that, “For you to succeed in your field music and other related businesses, you must love and protect your operational environment, in this case your country.”
“Rwanda has achieved a lot in the last 21 years; the growing music industry is built on the safety and security the country is enjoying today, and one of the ways to preserve these achievements is to work harder and together,” he added.
“Your career should also be a voice to safety…a voice that instills national values and patriotism among Rwandans; a voice that drives all Rwandans to speak one language of safety, security and development.”
He further urged them to have a single voice in their career, avoid wrangles and other forms of misunderstandings among themselves which can affect their egos and profession.
In line with partnership, IGP Gasana revealed that Rwanda National Police will soon sign a memorandum of understanding with artistes which will mainly center on cooperation and ambassadorship in crime prevention to foster secure environment for all.
He went on to respond to questions from the artistes, which centred on piracy and copyrights.
On this, he advised them to have their products registered with Rwanda Development Board (RDB) and other relevant entities saying that in that context it would be easy for police to protect them.
The IGP was accompanied by the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Theos Badege the Commissioner for CID, who also spoke at length about laws governing and protecting artistes, and he urged them to abide by those laws.
One of the artists Joshua Tuyishime, commonly known by his take name, Jay Polly, expressed appreciations to the police especially with regards to the idea of having an MoU.
“If we come up with a network as the IGP advised us, and we enter a special MoU partnership with the police, there is no doubt we will be bound to achieve a lot more that we expected,” Jay Polly said.
The musician went on to add that,” we have learnt a lot from the lectures we received today especially with regards to our role in maintaining security and public awareness.”
