Cameroon: South West - Police Boss to Revamp Rapid Intervention Units

The Delegate- General for National Security, Emmanuel Edou, has instructed his subordinate, South West Regional Delegate, to revamp the Special Rapid Intervention Unit so as to be more effective in cases of distress calls. The National Police boss was addressing the Police, Administrative and other local authorities amid the population that turned out at the Clerks' Quarters ceremonial ground in Buea to receive him yesterday August13, 2009. Buea was the third lap of Emmanuel Edou's tour of Police Services in the country after Yaounde and Douala following his appointment last 16 July.

The National Police boss remarked that the South West was a sensitive security zone given its geographic location sharing borders with the Littoral Region with intense criminal activities as well as the peculiar situation of the Bakassi Zone. The Delegate General called for a complete horizontal and vertical collaboration chiefly with the population for the success of their demanding mission. He summoned a pioneer spirit, sacrifice and unalloyed patriotism for the Police in the Bakassi zone saying facilities will be assured in no distant future. The Police Boss declared that he would reward performing workers and sanction wayward elements.

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