Rwanda National Police

 Police Senior Command and Staff course students on an internal study tour, visited the East African Granite Industries and Inyange Industries in Nyagatare and Kicukiro districts respectively, on June 10.

 The visit by 30 Police officers from eight regional countries including the host Rwanda, is part of the one year course at the Musanze-based National Police College (NPC), which offers strategic leadership in police studies and master’s programme in Peace Studies and Conflict.

 Dalause Kapala, the Managing Director of East African Granite Industries, who received the Police students, briefed them on the performance of the industry and the role and importance of businesses in the national economic development agenda.

 At Inyange, a beverage industry, it's Managing Director Charles Gakwaya, who also explained to them on the various products it produces, noted that "security forces play vital role in doing business and development as it's the foundation to which they are built."

 On their first day of the study tour on June 8, the students visited Rwanda Governance Board (RGB), the Ministry of the East African Community and the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC) and the Rwanda National Police anti-GBV medical wing - Isange One Stop Centre.

 On June 9, they visited the Ministry of Disaster and Refugee Affairs and Rwanda Development Board (RDB).

 One of the requirements of the course is to conduct  both internal and external study tours. External tours are expected to be conducted  next week  in other African countries to be announced soon.