Luanda - Angola’s Interior minister Eugénio Laborinho Thursday said that he wants a National Police capable of ensuring security of the general elections, scheduled for August 2022.
The minister said so at the opening of the Higher Police Council, which takes place at the Luanda Operative Unit, stressing that the National Police have been for more than a year organising themselves to assume their role.
Laborinho underlined the fact that the staff are committed to improving the levels of action, always having the Constitution and the law as guiding instruments.
As for looting of public assets, Eugénio Laborinho called for adoption of operational measures to prevent and repress these acts. He also defended exemplary accountability of the perpetrators.
He acknowledged that despite efforts to stop this evil, there are still thefts of electrical cables, vandalism of gutters, windows and doors of public buildings, the removal of components from railway lines and damage to public transport.
He recommended the police staff to step up proximity policing, as a way of materialising society's participation in its own security.
The meeting will discuss, among others matters, the assurance plan for 2022 general elections, the Draft Law Proposal for the Amendment of Private Security Activity and the security guard training programme.
