𝐒𝐋𝐏 𝐓𝐨 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞

The SLP Commissioner added that due to the exemplary performance in peacekeeping missions, the SLP has been asked to stay and send in more personnel as other countries are folding up in Somalia.

“This is because of how we train the Somali Police, how we network with them and handle critical issues surrounding policing,” said Commissioner Lahai.

As Haiti’s situation comes to normalcy, the country, he said, has called on the IGP to chip in and help to provide personnel to build up their Police Institution to enable them to meet international standards and best practices.

Commissioner Lahai added that South Sudan has called on the SLP to train their police.

Commissioner Lahai also disclosed that after a convincing reason by the IGP, the Government of Sierra Leone has approved Police Attache to the country’s foreign missions across the globe, starting with the Mano River Basin, AU and ECOWAS.

These things, he said, did not come as a surprise, as he was sure that the current leadership of the SLP believes in discipline and force expansion.

Charity, he said, begins at home; and that if the SLP had failed in instituting discipline among its ranks, the Institution could always have been in shame, CP Lahai maintained.

For his part, IGP Fayia Sellu told Global Times, “I will, first of all, thank President Bio, Vice President Juldeh Jalloh, the Government, and the people of Sierra Leone for standing with us during the difficult times”. He later praised the government and international partners for supporting Sierra Leone to get such international recognition by representing the country on the international platform. He concluded by saying that as Sierra Leone is now a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council we need to do more to fully represent the country’s policing activities internationally. He advised police officers to be disciplined and put the country first