STORY:

Two Hundred Somali Police Recruits Pass Out After

in Baidoa
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LANGUAGE: SOMALI/NATURAL SOUND
DATELINE: 2015/11/17, BAIDOA, SOMALIA

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Wide shot, Somali Police recruits mount a pass out parade

Close up, Somali Police boots
Med shot, Somali Police recruits mount a pass out parade
SOUNDBITE (Somali)
South West Administration (ISWA)President, Shariff
Hassan Sheikh Adan,
I congratulate you for successfully completing the
training. Now you will have new responsibilities and you will be upholding the
law of the land. You are conferred authority. I request the commanding
officers to immediately deploy the officers and to fully equip them. You are
the first batch of police officers for this administration.
5. Wide shot,
Somali Police recruits mount a pass out parade
6. Med shot,
Somali Police recruits mount a pass out parade
7. SOUNDBITE (English) AMISOM Chief of Staff Amb. Epiphany Kabushemeye
On behalf of SRCC, I take this opportunity to congratulate Somali Police
Force and AMISOM Police for the enormous efforts to reform the Somali
Police and regional police by mentoring and training Somali sons and
daughters to assume security responsibility.
8. Wide shot, Somali Police recruits at attention
9. Med shot, Somali Police recruits at attention
10. SOUNDBITE (English)AMISOM Police Commissioner, Anand Pillay, We have
two hundred officers before you, who have been trained for three months
and who are now ready to be involved with the communities and ensure that
they are protected and they are safe. So this is history we will ensure that
there is some form of protection for our people in Somalia.
11. Wide shot, South West Administration (ISWA)President, Sharif Hassan Sheikh
Adan inspects the guard of honor
12. Med shot, Somali Police recruits at attention
13. Close up, Somali Police recruits at attention
14. Wide shot, South West Administration (ISWA)President, Sharif Hassan Sheikh
Adan inspects the guard of honor
15. Close up, Somali police recruit
16. Med shot, South West Administration (ISWA)President, Sharif Hassan Sheikh
Adan inspects the guard of honor

17. Wide shot, South West Administration (ISWA)President, Sharif Hassan Sheikh
Adan and Federal Minister for Women and Human Rights, Zahra Samatar
18. Med shot, South West Administration (ISWA)President, Sharif Hassan Sheikh
Adan
STORY
BAIDOA, 17 NOVEMBER 2015:
Two hundred Somali Police recruits celebrated the
th
completion of three months of training in Baidoa on Tuesday 17
November 2015,
making the first batch of trained police officers who will be posted in police stations
in the Interim South West Administration. The passing out parade ceremony was
presided by the President of the Interim South West Administration (ISWA), Shariff
Hassan Sheikh Adan, and AMISOM Police Commissioner Anand Pillay.
I congratulate you for successfully completing the training. Now you will have new
responsibilities and you will be upholding the law of the land. You are conferred
authority. I request the commanding officers to immediately deploy the officers and
to fully equip them. You are the first batch of police officers for this administration,
said President Sheikh Adan.
The pass out was witnessed by government and regional administration officials
among them the Federal Minister for Women and Human Rights, Zahra Samatar;
AMISOM Chief of Staff, Ambassador Epiphanie Kabushemeye; AMISOM Deputy
Police Commissioner, Christine Alalo; UNSOM Senior Police Advisor Hans
Wanderstein and AMISOM Sector 3 Commander Gabre Mikael Yemane. Also
present were officials from AMISOM, Somali military, and representatives from the
United Nations and other international partners.
In her remarks, Ambassador Kabushemeye who was representing the Special
Representative of the African Union Commission Chairperson (SRCC)for Somalia,
commended the police officers for diligence during training.
On behalf of SRCC, I take this opportunity to congratulate the Somali Police Force
and AMISOM Police for the enormous efforts to reform the Somali Police and
regional police by mentoring and training Somali sons and daughters to assume the
responsibilities of providing security, she said.
She added that AMISOM police will continue mentoring the recruits as they
undertake their duties of maintaining law and order. Police Commissioner Pillay
congratulated the new officers for their successful completion of the basic police
training. He thanked them for their aptitude and resilience during the course.
The new police officers were awarded certificates for successfully completing
training within the stipulated period. They will be posted in various police stations in

the south west to keep law and order. They are the first group to be trained by the
police for posting in the regions.
The ISWA President together with AMISOM Police Commissioner Pillay, also visited
Baidoa Regional Police Station where they laid a foundation stone.
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