A number of 430 Police Officers on Monday October 23rd, started sitting for the United Nations Assistance Mission Services (AMS) interviews at Mandela National Stadium – Namboole.
AIGP Grace Turyagumanwe the Director of Peace Support Operations in Uganda Police Force said that interviews were all prepared by the department of Peace Keeping Operation in New York in collaboration with the countries that requested.
Turyagumanwe while briefing the officers at Namboole said that this exercise will run for a week and interviews are in orals, report writing, ICT, shooting and driving.
He added that several skills like investigative, canine, counter terrorism, community policing patrol’s are required for an individual to pass the testing.
“For any police officer to sit for the interviews must not have any disciplinary offence as well as no criminal background,” Turyagumanwe said.
“United Nations and African Union wants 30% of women from us, and we have been training women in this endeavor specifically to compete with men especially in driving, with the support of East African standby force in driving 4by4 manual shift cars which in the past has been failing many women on this interview” he added.
The AIGP made revelation that about 150 women have been trained and they are very ready to face the interviews so that the United Nations gender issue on deployments is addressed, adding that “women in missions help us so much to attend to the elderly , the children and women so that’s why we are giving so much attention and emphasis to have their numbers increased.”
“We have been preparing for the Formed Unit especially in areas of patrol and public order management in politically unstable countries and our officers are performing well,” he said.
Uganda has been deploying since 1996 up to date in countries with political instability say South Sudan, Somalia, Chad , Central African Republic, Liberia, Kosovo and over 2000 officers have taken part in peace keeping missions up to now.
