STORY: UN Police train Somali Police Force

officers on gender-based violence

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DATELINE: 19/09/2016, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
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SOUNDBITE: GENERAL BASHIR ABDI MOHAMED,
SOMALI POLICE FORCE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER.
We protect lives in every sense. We must not accept anyone to
be physically abused. We have laws and values that we must
uphold. The so- called traditional period is over; we have to
understand and be pragmatic about it. I want you to be
ambassadors in upholding the values of policing, and as a Somali
person, within the national interest.
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14. SOUNDBITE: FRANCO SANCHEZ, HEAD OF
GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW, UNITED NATIONS
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP).
We are working with 30 to 40 police offers in a series of
trainings to talk about how to be more technical about the sexual
and gender based violence crimes. How they can collect
evidence, how they can interview victims and how to respond to
them. They will also learn methodologies on questioning and
others. The UN is supporting this effort together with the Police
Commissioner and will do the training in all the states of
Somalia.
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SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI) MANDEEQ ABDULLAHI
ADEN, SOMALI POLICE FORCE, GALMUDUG.
Abuse against women is widespread and I cannot list them all
here, but I want to practice the knowledge that I gain from this
seminar in my area of operation so that women and children are
protected from Sexual and Gender based Violence and other
abuses.
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SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI) CAPTAIN MOHAMED
ABADIR, SOMALI POLICE FORCE, JUBBALAND.
We came all the way from Kismaayo to Mogadishu in order to
gain knowledge. Since the police are tasked to protect lives and
property, this gender-based violence training will enable us to
stop the violence as well as protect the most vulnerable members
of the society from such abuse.
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UN Police train Somali Police Force officers on gender-based

violence
Mogadishu, 19 September 2016 - Twenty-five officers from the
Somali Police Force drawn from various parts of the country began a
five-day training course on the prevention of Sexual and GenderBased Violence (SGBV).
The UN-sponsored training opened today and will acquaint the
officers with different ways of handling sexual and gender-based
violence.
The Somali Police Force Deputy Commissioner Gen. Bashir Abdi
Mohamed officially opened the workshop.
We must not accept for anyone to be physically abused. We have
laws and values that we must uphold. The so-called traditional
period is over; we have to understand and be pragmatic about it. I
want you to be ambassadors in upholding the values of policing,
said Gen. Mohamed.
The UN Development Programmes Head of Governance and Rule of
Law in Somalia, Franco Sanchez, said the UN was committed to
working with the Somali police to investigate SGBV cases. The
training will focus on the collection of evidence in cases of Sexual
and Gender-Based violence and interviewing techniques required to
obtain critical information from victims.

The officers will learn how to collect evidence, how to interview the
victims and how to respond to them. They will also learn
methodologies on questioning among others, explained Mr.
Sanchez.
A police officer from Jubbaland state, Captain Mohamed Abadir
Ahmed, said he would share knowledge gained from the training
with other colleagues to reduce the incidence of such cases.
We came all the way from Kismaayo to Mogadishu in order to gain
knowledge on SGBV. Since the police are tasked to protect lives and
property, this gender-based violence training will enable us to stop
the violence and also protect the most vulnerable members of the
society from such abuse, Captain Mohamed said.
Another participant from Galmudug state, Mandeeq Abdullahi Aden,
appealed to fellow police officers to be proactive in curbing cases of
gender based violence.
Abuse against women is widespread and I cannot list them all here,
but I want to practice the knowledge that I gain from this seminar in
my area of operation, so that women and children are protected
from sexual and gender-based violence and other abuses, Mr. Aden
stated.
UN police advisers are closely working with the Federal Government
of Somalia to counter SGBV through such training workshops, and a
similar workshop will be held in Mogadishu for another group of
Somali Police Force officers next week.
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