Rwanda National Police

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Emmanuel K. Gasana, on January 13, met with 30 Police officers who returned recently from a one year United Nation peacekeeping mission in South Sudan and Darfur, and thanked them for their professionalism and job well done.

The officers, who include 19 women were deployed as Individual Police Officers (IPOs) and their duties included mentoring, monitoring and training.

During a debriefing, IGP Gasana urged them to maintain the impetus and discipline, use and share the gained policing skills and knowledge to protect the image of RNP and for the good of the country.

“What you did in the mission area pays for national value,” he noted.

Rwanda National Police currently maintains about 570 officers in eight missions, namely; Liberia, Ivory Coast, Haiti, South Sudan, Mali, Central African Republic, Darfur and  Abyei.

Commissioner of Police, Vianney Nshimiyimana is also the Police Commissioner for the United Nations Operation in Ivory Coast (UNOCI).