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Ghana is to deploy to Somalia a contingent of 160 police officers from the country's Police Unit (FPU).
Ghana's deployment of additional officers in the Horn of Africa responds to UN Security Council Resolution 2431 (2018), in which it is recommended that the number of police officers under the UN Security Council be increased. African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
Resolution 2431 allows member states of the African Union to maintain the AMISOM deployment until 31 May 2019, with a minimum of 1,040 police officers, including five formed police units. (FPU), in the current transition.
The police component of AMISOM currently has three electoral police units and seeks to fill the gap in order to obtain the authorized numbers.
"We are about to start training the staff," confirmed the director of international relations of the Ghana Police Service and head of the delegation, the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Baba Saanid Adamu, who added that the Ghana police had already notified the AU Commission to send an badessment team to this country of West Africa.
"Hopefully we would have completed the training and badessment in mid-March. We will then begin the next phase, which includes the inspection of contingent-owned equipment, ready for airlifting and transported to Mogadishu and Baidoa, "added ACP Adamu.
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Earlier this week, the four-member Ghanaian delegation, including Chief Superintendent of Police, Reginald Osei of the Ghana-based Police Unit, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Rose Awah, Deputy Superintendent of The police, Frank Duodu and ACP Adamu, went to Baidoa, the administrative capital of the South West State, where Ghana's FPU will be based, to badess the situation in the area. security and facilities available, as part of the pre-deployment badessment exercise.
"Ghana's contribution will help fill the gaps in capacity and needs for the police component," said Simon Mulongo, AU Deputy Special Representative for Somalia, at a meeting in Mogadishu Thursday.
Mulongo welcomed Ghana's decision to deploy a Somali-based police unit, saying it would enhance the effectiveness of AMISOM, as it consolidates and maintains law and order. Order in the liberated areas.
The four-member Ghanaian delegation was headed by Baba Saanid Adamu, Deputy Commissioner of Police (ACP), who is also director of international relations for the Ghanaian police.
The formed police units conduct joint security operations alongside their Somali counterparts. Operations include patrols, searches and searches and the management of checkpoints to strengthen the operational capabilities of Somali police officers.
FPUs also support their Somali counterparts in the management of public order and the provision of armed escorts for VIPs, as well as close protection services for individual AMISOM police officers, who gather at various police stations across the country, to provide daily mentoring to Somali police officers.
In addition to Ghana, Djibouti also expressed the wish to deploy a police unit incorporated in Somalia. Christine Alalo, acting police commissioner of AMISOM, said the deployment of Djibouti would complete the required number of FTUs, as stipulated in the UN Security Council resolution.
"We have a niche for two participating police units to be added to what we have to get a total of five FPU planning units," said Alalo.
At present, Ghana has a team of 39 individual police officers badigned to the AU mission in Somalia; a team that has demonstrated exemplary performance as staff officers, trainers, instructors and mentors, according to Mr. Mulongo.
The deployment of a larger number of Ghanaian police officers would therefore further enhance the performance of the AU mission.
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