Major- General Richard Addo Gyane, Commandant of Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center (KAIPTC) in Ghana, on the 11th April, 2023, met with the Inspector General of Police (IGP), William Fayia Sellu, at his George Street Office. The two held talks on the commencement of a mobile training programme on electoral violence.
According to the Commandant, the position of KAIPTC is to ensure that peace and security prevail in the West African Sub-region and Africa at large.
Major-General Gyane further revealed that KAIPTC is always lobbying to ECOWAS, UN and other international organizations for funding and sponsorship so as to enable the Center to embark on various professional trainings for officers in the sub-region. He noted that this training is going to boost the SLP to peacefully Police the forth coming multi-tier elections.
While responding to Major General Gyane, IGP William Fayia Sellu expressed profound gratitude to the Commandant and team of facilitators for their initiative to support the SLP with professional skills in policing the electioneering processes.
He further intimated the Commandant on the preparedness of the SLP; noting that series of training including training of trainers courses on election management have already been conducted for the vast majority of Police Officers in all police jurisdictions across the country.
While concluding, he said; ” the support from KAIPTC and other partners to capacitate our personnel with knowledge, have placed the SLP in a good footing to effectively and efficiently deliver professional policing service to the people of this country before, during and after the elections. We remain grateful to Major General Richard Addo Gyane and his team”.
Having earlier held a consensus that the proposed training must commence on Tuesday April 11, 2023, Major General Gyane and team proceeded to the Sierra Leone Peacekeeping and Law Enforcement Academy (SILEA) to commence the training.
In collaboration with the Training Directorate of the SLP, the following modules which were deemed suitable for the training were introduced:
Elections Cycle And Elections Security Trend In Africa, Elections Security Trend In Sierra Leone In Security Arrangements, Coordination And Cooperation, Gender Human Rights And Elections Security, Threat Assessment, Intelligence Management And Early Warning, Elections Management And Legal Framework In Sierra Leone and Conflict Management/Security.
In a short and brief ceremony to mark the start of the training at SILEA, Hastings Campus, Major General Gyane addressed the trainees to treat the training with utmost importance, stating that the objective of such training is to enhance professional policing output from Police Officers. He also informed the trainees that the training will help to build up their capabilities as to how to handle ethical issues during the electioneering process.
