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The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Emmnauel K. Gasana has called police sports clubs to aim higher in their performance and achieve more in 2015.
He made the call on 31, December while officiating at the end of year interaction to assess the performance and reviewing the way forward for both Police FC and Police handball team.
The police chief, who acknowledged achievements of both teams lauded especially the Handball team for making high landmarks in 2014, where it scooped seven trophies, being the only club to do so in the recent history of the sport in Rwanda.
“These achievements are a pride to the institution at the national and international level. We should keep focus and work hard to achieve even more,” said Gasana.
IGP Gasana elaborated the essence of sports within the police as a tool that bonds officers and the public in crime prevention strategies through community policing.
He promised more support by widening the scoop of the sports committees while seeking more sponsorship from different share holders.
He also advised the sportsmen and womeb maintain a high level of discipline as a vital key in any professional sphere and said that the review session will held be annually to evaluate what has been achieved and correct past mistakes
The force’s sports teams won seven sports trophies. The handball team scooped the national league champions, Labour Day, Memorial and Liberation cups to mention but a few.
Police fc scooped the third place in the Kagame CECAFA Cup that was concluded in August 2014 and earned second place in the liberation cup.
Police Constable Console Birori is a member of the National Taekwondo Team and she is one of the players who won a gold medal during the Ambassadors Cup held between October 3 and 4 2014 at Petit Stade in Remera in Kigali.
The competition had brought together participants from five African countries, namely; Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.
