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New police force to replace national gendarmerie

    NAIROBI

    A new national police will be recruited to replace the gendarmerie and the local defence force “as soon as all legal technicalities are finalised”, Rwanda News Agency (RNA) reported at the weekend. “The initial national police force will be comprised of 3,500 policemen, who will be selected from the existing soldiers of the national gendarmerie, local defence and the public,” RNA quoted national gendarmerie commander Major Denis Kareera, who has responsibility for establishing the new force, as saying. Those gendarmerie who were not been taken on in the new force would have the option of joining the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA), the report added.

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