Elizabeth Mosima
25 February 2008
Soldiers from 13 African countries took part in the first ever training programme on the management of crime at the Awae training centre.
Nineteen gendarmerie officers of the first batch of gendarmerie trainees in the management of armed robbery received their end of course certificates last Thursday at the Sub-Regional Centre for the Maintenance of Peace and Order in Awae, some 40km from Yaounde.
The four-week training programme brought together sub-gendarme officers from 13 countries in Africa. They are Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Mauritania and Cameroon. For four weeks, the officers were drilled on techniques of management of crime wave in society. The soldiers carried out physical demonstrations of the different techniques of managing crime. Out of the 20 students that began the training, one of them Idoumou Ould Baba Ahmed, from Mauritania died during the training. A new training ground for the centre was inaugurated in honour of the fallen hero. Idoumou Ould Baba Ahmed died last January 29 during a training a training exercise in Awae.
Speaking during the occasion, the Secretary of State for Defence in charge of the National Gendarmerie, Jean Baptiste Bokam, assured the gendarme officers that investigations into the death of the former Mauritanian trainee will continue. Investigations, according to him, could lead to a reorganisation of the training centre. He called on the newly trained officers to put into practice the knowledge and experience they have learnt during the training as they go back to their various occupations.
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