Menongue – Deputy Commissioner Joaquim Manuel Pereira, second provincial commander of the National Police (PN) in the south-eastern Cuando Cubango Province, expressed the readiness of the officers to respect and apply Human Rights in their relationship with citizens in migrant situations.
Speaking on Friday, at the end of the training session on “Humanitarian Dimensions of Migration”, which aimed to improve action on migratory phenomena, Joaquim Manuel Pereira stated that the staff are better prepared to achieve the objectives of the PN human rights commission and the International Organization for Migration, specialized in more humanized action.
According to the official, the trained personnel must find sufficient spaces within the scope of operational and tactical police training programs, to disseminate the knowledge now improved and deepen it through continuous research, so that they continue to provide services within the framework of national and international requirements.
“With the implementation of the national training strategy for personnel, we are certain that the methods, forms and techniques instilled in patriotic education specialists at the provincial command, which connects the two borders, namely to the south with the Republic of Namibia and to the southwest with the Republic of Zambia will have greater and better results”, he highlighted.
The commissioner highlighted that the three days of work in theoretical and practical aspects allowed the staff to absorb enough knowledge, to improve the quality of action in the relationship between police and migrants, in line with pacts, international conventions and national laws, aiming to guarantee fundamental rights of migrants, within the social harmony that must exist between peoples.
He stated that nowadays there is a consensus on recognizing the fundamental role of human rights and humanitarian dimensions for migration, as a subsystem of national public security.
The training programme - lasting three days, carried out by the Human Rights Commissions of the National Police of Angola and the International Organization for Migration - was attended by more than 30 officers from the provincial command of the National Police (PN), the Border police and the Migration and Foreigners Service (SME).
The trainees covered topics such as the human rights of migrants, international, regional and national instruments on human rights in mixed migratory flows and the participation of the PN provincial command in guaranteeing migratory rights.
Trafficking in human beings and smuggling and identification of existing tools to combat them, context of the mixed migration flow in Angola, profile of vulnerable migrants in migratory flows and factors attracting and driving migration, study of needs and fundamental principles of assistance migrants, were also part of the topics
covered.
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