By Zifac Fatima
The Mutengene Police Training Centre (CIAP) on October 25 saw the ceremony for award of diplomas and epaulettes to police inspectors and cardet police constables, who came to the end of their training.
The event presided over by Delegate General of National Security, Marin Mbarga Nguele, which took place at the esplanade of CIAP Mutengene, marked a significant mile stone in the lives of 2,444 successful trainees. This Cohort consisted of 126 men and 42 women as police inspectors, 79 men and 17 women as special police inspectors, 375 men & 56 women as direct police inspectors, plus 1,498 men & 260 women as police constables
In his address, the Delegate General for National Security, Mbarga Nguele, acknowledged President Paul Biya forย authorising the recruitment of police inspectors and police constables, to strengthen national security and promote deserving police agents. He warmly congratulated the graduating trainees and urged them to demonstrate professionalism, commitment to public service and scrupulous respect for ethics.
The police boss reminded the trainees they will have to put their theoretical and practical knowledge acquired in the context of criminal change, marked by terrorist attacks against citizens and personnel of the defense and security forces, kidnappings with ransom demands and cowardly executiion of the population.
The Delegate General emphasised the important role of the police in urban environments where new forms of crimes are including cybercrimes and all forms of digital fraud, human trafficking and the consumption of narcotics and other psychotropic substances are emerging
Mbarga Nguele reminded them that their new status naturally grants them rights as guaranteed by the state to all civil servants. Thus, they have the obligation to serve the institutions of the republic and to protect the population. โThis is an obligation which you must fulfill with honour, loyalty, devotion, fidelity, impartiality, integrity, diligence and efficiencyโ he reiterated.
The police chieftain cautioned the policemen and -women against personally exercising any lucrative professional activity, with the exception of rural production or literary and artistic work. He also reminded them of their duties to refrain from activities that could discredit the national institutions and the Police Force
In various press interviews, some of the police inspectors and constables shared their experiences, recounting the challenges they faced during the training. Ngene Landry, a cardet police constable, said, โIt was not an easy journey right from passing the exams to the struggles during the training, but we thank God and I am proud of myself that I made it.โ He expressed gratitude to the government for giving them the opportunity and promised to make the population happy by giving them the security they look up to the police force
Etuge Joushua, a Cardet Police Constable, expressed joy and gratitude to God for graduating because the journey was not easy. He said he desired to be a uniform man to ensure the population enjoys peace.
The ceremony ended with a colourful march pass by the various contingents of the police, manifesting the authority of the state as reflected in the duties of the police force.
It should be recalled that in the sidelines of the graduation and epaulette award ceremony proper at CIAP Mutengene, the Delegate General of National Security, Martin Mbarga Nguele, in an unprecedented diatribe, tacitly reprimanded the Minister of Public Works, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, for the deplorable state of the Yaounde – Douala Road. Mbarga Njuele recounted his ordeal of having plied that stretch of road in such a state for the first time ever, to preside at the ceremony at CIAP Mutengene.