Maputo — The General Commander of the Mozambican police force, Bernadino Rafael, has announced that the police will shortly undertake a complete census of its own members, to determine how many policemen the country really possesses.
In a startling admission of serious disorganisation and infiltration of the force by criminals, Rafael, speaking in the northern city of Lichinga, said that the re-registration of all police agents would purge all those who had somehow infiltrated the police in order to commit crimes.
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