CENTRAFRIQUE : Les policiers sommés de se présenter à leurs lieux d'affectation, partout au pays
BANGUI, 14 Juillet 2003 Nations Unies (IRIN) - Dans
le cadre des efforts pour restaurer la sécurité dans le pays, le ministre
centrafricain de la Sécurité publique, le colonel Paulin Bondeboli, a ordonné
aux officiers de police de se présenter immédiatement à leurs lieux
d'affectation situés dans tout le pays. "J'ai donné des directives pour qu'ils
rejoignent leurs stations dans les provinces d'ici une ou deux semaines", a
déclaré M. Bondeboli, lundi, lors d'un point de presse dans la capitale, Bangui.
Il souligné que la présence des autorités policières, militaires,
administratives et de la gendarmerie, rassurerait la population.
"Nous voulons restaurer la sécurité dans tout le pays avant la fin de
l'année", dit-il.
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Police officers asked to report to stations countrywide
BANGUI, 8 Jul 2003 (IRIN)
- In efforts to restore security in the Central African Republic, Public
Security Minister Col Paulin Bondeboli has directed police officers to report to
their duty stations across the country immediately.
"I have given instructions that they join their stations in provinces in a week
or two," Bondeboli said on Monday at a news conference in the capital, Bangui.
He said the presence of the police, gendarmerie, military and administrative
authorities would reassure the population. "We want to restore security
nationwide before the end of the year," he added.
No military, police or administrative officials have reported in the north of
the country since October 2002, when fighting broke out between government
troops and rebel fighters loyal to current leader Francois Bozize. The fighting
resulted in the destruction of private and public buildings, including police
stations.
The fighting ended when Bozize ousted President Ange-Felix Patasse on 15 March.
Bondeboli said many police stations in Bangui lacked vehicles and were housed in
private buildings or by local district administrations.
He said non-armed self-defence groups comprising voluntary youths had been set
up in the seventh district of Bangui to help the police and the gendarmerie. If
the project succeeded, he said, it would be replicated in all eight districts of
the city.
The ministry had recruited 200 more policemen, he said, who were currently being
trained, to reinforce the capacity of the police.
He said the government wanted to organise elections in 2004 under satisfactory
security conditions.
Bozize has announced a constitutional referendum in mid-2004, the presidential
election in the third quarter of 2004 and parliamentary elections in the fourth
quarter of the same year.