Senior South Sudanese police officers in Yambio trained by UNMISS
Senior police officers from different branches of the South Sudan Police Service in Yambio, Western Equatoria, pictured during an UNMISS-facilitated training on leadership and management skills. 19 Jan 2021 Denis Louro
“As United Nations Police officers serving with UNMISS, we work very closely with our South Sudanese policing counterparts,” says Andrii Doroshenko, a Police Adviser serving with the UN peacekeeping mission in the world’s newest country.
“Part of our mandate is to build capacities within local law enforcement and, therefore, we decided to provide them with a course in leadership and management since good decision-making usually starts at the highest level,” he adds.
Police, UN clean Torit central police station
UNPOL and SSNPS cleaning Torit police municipal central division facility Tuesday 5th January 2021. [Photo: Radio Tamazuj]
South Sudan National Police Services (SSNPS) in collaboration with the United Nations Police (UNPOL) yesterday, Tuesday, carried out a one-day general cleaning exercise of the Torit Central Police Station to the relief of inmates there.
The cleaning came after the UNPOL conducted several visits and realized that the suspects held at the police station lived in unhygienic conditions.
The facility had a perpetual bad stench because of lack of toilets which resulted in the inmates using buckets and basins to defecate and urinate. The human waste is then taken and discarded in the mornings.