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Desist from partisan politics, Hakayobe urges police

Desist from partisan politics, Hakayobe urges police
Written by Edwin Mbulo in Livingstone
Sunday, November 23, 2008 9:56:16 AM

SOUTHERN Province permanent secretary Darius Hakayobe has urged police officers to desist from engaging in partisan politics and corrupt practices in accordance with their code of conduct. And Southern Province police commanding officer Lemmy Kajoba has appealed to the government to build police camps in Maamba, Namwala and Gwembe.

Speaking when he officiated at the Southern Province Police command annual ball in Livingstone on Friday, Hakyobe said the officers must be seen to promote the government’s vision for zero tolerance to corruption.

“You must desist from participating in politics; politics outside, it is time to develop our nation. I’m very happy that the police is not participating in politics, your duty therefore is to support the government of the day, you should not be partisan and I know that you are not partisan. I know and I have been with you for a long time, you are disciplined," he said.

He urged the officers to deal with issues and not names.

“It is not that because this is Hakayobe or Banda, deal with issues. Police officers should play an important role to provide security in the tourist city, I urge the police command to speed up the creation of the tourism police in the tourist capital to protect tourists,” said Hakayobe.

And Kajoba urged the government to also build a prison in Monze to decongest the police cells.

He said the police had been rocked with human rights violations and accusations due to lack of a prison in Monze.

Kajoba further said the sale of government houses had made it difficult for the police to find accommodation for its officers.

“The issue of accommodation has however been noted with a sense of relief in Livingstone with the construction of 65 houses,” he said.

He also said Livingstone had been rocked with serious crime this year, but that the situation had since been normalised.

“The term Tunsimbi became synonymous with Livingstone city where musicians seized an opportunity to make quick bucks by composing songs, whilst the church prayed to seek spiritual interventions,” he said.

He said this situation led to the police to become more focused and determined to bring the culprits to book.

“Through applied tenets of proper planning, coupled with hard work by my officers who rarely slept in their houses, most of the high profile cases have been solved and reached a logical conclusion. A number of accused persons are serving deserving sentences meted out by our courts of law, whilst others are still under the process of court justices,” he said.

Kajoba added that during this period, the police learnt that there was need to foster partnerships with the community in contemporary policing.

Labels: DARIUS HAKAYOBE, POLICE

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