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By Jino Wilson<\/p>\n
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\u00a0<\/strong>Budi County authorities of Eastern Equatoria State graduated 72 community police officers, including 66 males, 6 females, and 1 person with a disability on Tuesday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Graduates have undergone a month-long training program to equip them with the skills and knowledge necessary to support public safety and work alongside traditional authorities.<\/p>\n The 72 community police officers graduation\u00a0marks a significant boost to local security efforts.<\/p>\n The program included both men and women,\u00a0promoting inclusivity and representation.<\/p>\n Budi County Commissioner, Akileo Mboya highlighted the officers’ role in aiding public safety,\u00a0assisting communities in healing,\u00a0and bridging the gap between communities and police forces.<\/p>\n The officers will support traditional chiefs in addressing local and upholding the rule of law at the grassroots.<\/p>\n “This force will greatly help reduce violence within the community,” said County Commissioner Mboya.<\/p>\n “The chiefs have been having no backup in the community,\u00a0hence this force will greatly help the chiefs.” He noted.<\/p>\n “Community policing will enhance rule of law by apprehending grassroots criminals and forwarding them to the police,\u00a0where the police will hand them over to the judiciary,” added Mboya.<\/p>\n According to the commissioner the community police officers will play a vital role in working alongside communities and traditional authorities to create a safer and more peaceful environment for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Jino Wilson \u00a0Budi County authorities of Eastern Equatoria State graduated 72 community police officers, including 66 males, 6 females, and 1 person with a disability on Tuesday. Graduates have undergone a month-long training program to equip them with the skills and knowledge necessary to support public safety[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-easter-equatoria-state","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Image-of-community-police-officers-during-their-graduation-parade-in-Budi-County.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21194,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21192\/revisions\/21194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}