Yaounde: National Advanced Police School graduates fresh batch of trainees.

This was during a ceremony to send out the 2022/2024 batch of trainees. The ceremony was also used to award 20th May medals to some 100 deserving officers. It held on the campus of the National Advanced Police School. 

The event was presided over by the Delegate General for National Security, DGNS, Martin Mbarga Nguele. 

Some members of government, other top state personalities as well as administrative and municipal authorities lived the ceremony. 

It was also attended by huge crowd of family members, friends and love ones of the trainees. 

Of the 356 trainees, there were 120 superintendents. 76 of the superintendents drawn from Cameroon and Congo were admitted though competitive entrance exams while 50 others who are Cameroonians were admitted through special entrance exams.

Of the 230 police officers who were graduated, 181 were drawn from Cameroon and Congo. They were admitted through competitive exams while 49 others, only Cameroonians, were admitted through special entrance exams. 

Speaking while chairing the ceremony, the Delegate General for National Security, Martin Mbarga Nguele, expressed gratitude to the Head of State, Paul Biya, for okaying the admission and training of the officers. 

He said the training has “reinforce the capacities of the Cameroonian police force” and their peers from the Republic of Congo. 

The DGNS boss also thanked Central and West Africa countries for trusting in the capacity of Cameroon to train their security officers.  

“Allow me to express here, our very sincere thanks to the Police Commissioner of the Congo, for the trust placed in Cameroon in the training of police officers and police commissioners. This responsibility undoubtedly reflects a very high level of trust and responsibility that is unquestionable,” Mbarga Nguele said. 

Choosing Cameroon for the training, he added, signifies the strong ties both nations share and also strengthens the trust. 

Senior Superintendents decorating Superintendents of Police  

Enter commander of school 

The Commander of the National Advanced Police School, Police Commissioner Tang Enow Lawrence Oben, appreciated trainees for the discipline demonstrated throughput the two-year training. 

“On this occasion we celebrate these young men and women who have made it successfully to the end of the two years training and for putting their training at the centre of capacity building,” Commissioner Tang Oben said. 

He saluted the staff of the school for “transforming the institution into one of the most cherished institutions”. 

Quality of training 

Zooming on the intake of the 2022/2024 batch, Commissioner Tang Oben said a total of 369 trainees were admitted in 2022 but unfortunately five left the training midway due to various reasons.

The Commander of the National Advanced Police School said the training aimed at arming the trainees with skills to enable them to “carry out their mission with the greatest interest and respect for their values of the profession”.

Congolese trainees hail authorities for trust 

Commissioner of Police from the Republic of Congo, Ossikas Mvouo Reslin Jilress, thanked Cameroonian authorities for the support and assistance that enabled them to complete the training. 

“I would also want to thank the Congolese-Cameroon cooperation in police training because this police cooperation made it possible for us to become the 8th promotion of the Congolese-Cameroon police at this school in Yaounde and we will like to proclaim now that it was a success,” Mvouo Jilress said. 

Pledging to uphold the oath of police and to carry on with the mission assigned them during their training, Mvouo Jilress, added that: “We will continue to lead the population in a direction that will make our central Africa a territory standing on matters of security”.

Cross section of state officials at event 

Cameroonian trainees pledge to uphold professionalism 

Senior Superintendent of Police, Fai Ernest, who was also awarded the medal of the Knight for the Sporting Order of Valour expressed his gratitude to the Head of State and his hierarchy for supporting him in achieving the recognition.  

“This medal is a commitment for me to continue to serve because medals are not given to anyone, they are given to people who merit. This medal gives me more impetus and more zeal to continue working at the service of Cameroonians so that I can merit more medals in the future,” he said. 

On hi spart, newly promoted Senior Superintendent of Police, George Array Agbor, said the ceremony is a special day of his life. 

“…been in the National Advanced Police School in Yaounde is not a bed of roses. There are so many challenges and we have braved all the challenges and now am walking today and shining with all my stars in joy,” he said. 

Senior Superintendent of Police, Ngong Rene Shalanyuy, said it was with “great enthusiasm to have come to the end of the training”. 

Shalanyuy pledged to uphold professionalism with the fresh skills and especially rebuilding diminishing trust the police has in the police. 

This story was first published in The Guardian Post issue No:3183 of Monday July 29, 2024