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Law setting up national police passed

    NAIROBI

    The Rwandan parliament last week passed a law setting up the national police force, following the appointment of former army deputy chief of staff, Colonel Frank Mugabagye, as head of the new police force. Police work was previously carried out by the gendarmerie and the communal police, and in some cases the military police. According to Radio Rwanda, the new law “excludes the national gendarmerie and the communal police which have been replaced”.

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