United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa)
15 February 2008
press release
Thursday February 14 2008 marked the official hand over of an EU financed Congolese National Police (PNC) building which will house the CSRP, the executive Secretariat of the follow-up Committee for the Reform of the PNC.
During a ceremony featuring the PNC brass band, Richard Zink, head of the European Union Commission in the DRC, gave the keys of the building to the DRC Interior Minister Denis Kalume, in the presence of PNC General Inspector John Numbi and General Michel Elesse, the CSRP executive secretary.
The 900 square foot building, which was financed by the European Union with 400,000 euros, was built by the PNC engineering section, and has nine fully furnished and equipped offices. The building also has a conference room, an archives room and a cafeteria.
The building is the headquarters of the CSRP, whose role consists in coordinating all the actions relating to the reform process of the PNC, in particular the training, the human resources management and the census of PNC officers.
The CSRP brings together many DRC government ministers implicated in the reform of the PNC, notably the Interior, Civil Service and Finance Ministers, civil society members, as well as numerous European ambassadors in Kinshasa.
Furthermore, the European Union also announced another project of 10 million euros for the construction of a new building, intended for human resources and other needs of the PNC.
"We have started with the reform of the police on many different levels. We have brought this huge support for the management of human resources because a functioning police force needs to be well managed," EU envoy Mr. Zink explained.
The Congolese National Police force is estimated at 80,000 officers.
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