Fifty students of Kinyinya-based Kepler College visited Rwanda National Police (RNP) on Friday, March 31, as part of their ‘Kepler Success Week’ study tour.
Their visit was particularly to understand what the force does, its proactive approaches in addressing policing challenges and how the students can prepare themselves to join the force.
The RNP spokesperson, Commissioner of Police (CP) John Bosco Kabera, gave the students an overview of the Police activities in fighting and preventing crimes, supporting Rwanda’s development programmes through human security activities, which ultimately addresses some of the causes of crime.
He particularly enlightened them on training programmes offered to Police officers, road safety, cooperation and peacekeeping, and its readiness against fire and other emergencies.
He further gave them an insight into the community-oriented policing, which largely focuses on anti-crime awareness, working with many other groups in its proactive policing approach, as well as supporting the disadvantaged families as a bottom up approach to address all aspects of human insecurity.
For easy communication with the public, he said, the RNP established various channels, including toll-free lines and social media platforms through which any issue can be raised and responded to swiftly.
Tuyishimire Beatrice, a lecturer at Kepler, thanked the RNP for the insight into the concept of policing.
“The Kepler Success Week was designed for the students to understand how various institutions work so that when one gets an opportunity to work in one of those institutions, they will be having that picture of what is required of them.
It was amazing, some of the police duties and how it operates was new to some of us, so it was important for them especially when one, at some point, decides to join the police,” Tuyishimire said.
Ruben Mawuwa, one of the students, said that the problem-solving approach by the RNP puts “people first.”
“We have learnt a lot and we are going to share with other young people so that when you have a problem you know how the Police can help you.
We are also leaving here with another task of strengthening the ideas of community policing…for the people to be an eye and ear of the police in their localities so as to fight and prevent crimes collectively,” Mawuwa said. (End)