STORY: AMISOM Police holds sensitization

meeting on countering violent extremism

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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/SOMALI/NATURAL SOUND
DATELINE: 01/09/2016, BELETWEYNE, SOMALIA
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SOUNDBITE: CECILIA APPIAH AMPOFO, TEAM SITE
LEADER, AMISOM POLICE, BELETWEYNE.
Today we came to Beletweyne town to interact with the youth
and tell them how police and community should interact. We
came to interact with youths in the community on the
importance of reporting crime because criminals dont live
anywhere but among them. Our aim is to interact and encourage
community members to share information with the police and
encourage collaboration in fighting crime.
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13. SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI) ABDIHAFID MOHAMUD
HASHI, RESIDENT OF BELETWEYNE.
We learned how the community and police can cooperate, for
example, how to report criminals to police and security agencies
among others.
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19. SOUNDBITE: SHUKRI KEYNAN WEHLIYE, RESIDENT
OF BELETWEYNE.
The program was about the importance of interacting with the
police and reporting all criminal acts to security agents and also
considering a police officer as a friend and not an enemy in the
war against terror.
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countering violent extremism

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23. Close up Chief Inspector, John Marete attend meeting
community policing

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SOUNDBITE:

CHIEF

INSPECTOR

JOHN

MARETE,

AMISOM POLICE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER.

Community policing in the new model of policing, is different
from traditional policing where police officers wait at police
stations for offences to be committed and go and arrest people
and then do investigations. The modern approach of policing is
intelligence-led or proactive and one of the ways to get
intelligence is through community policing,
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AMISOM Police holds sensitization meeting on countering

violent extremism
Beletweyne, 1 August 2016 - A one-day community sensitization
meeting on countering violent extremism organized by the African
Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has concluded with a call for
community members and youths to cooperate with police to fight
radicalization and to build peace and stability.
The meeting, held Wednesday in Beletweyne by AMISOM Police, is
part of a series of meetings , aimed at raising awareness of the
importance of countering violent extremism ahead of an upcoming
electoral process which begins this month.
The Beletweyne meeting was attended by representatives of the
business community, youth and women groups and the civil society.
Plans are also underway to hold similar meetings in other parts of

the country. Participants at the meeting said they would work

together with police to maintain peace and stability.
On behalf of Hiraan youths, I am pledging to work with the police
and other security agencies to bring peace and stability in Somalia,
the chairman of Hiraan Youth Organization, Mohamed Abdulahi
Burale, said.
AMISOM Polices Cecilia Appiah Ampofo said the meeting would also
give youths a clearer understanding of the negative impact of
radicalization and violent extremism.
Today we came to Beletweyne town to meet the youth and to tell
them how police and community should interact. Our aim is to
interact and encourage community members to share information
with the police and encourage collaboration in fighting crime,
Ampofo observed.
Chief Inspector John Marete of AMISOM said keeping communities
safe is the responsibility of both security agencies and the local
residents. He outlined the importance of community policing to this
effort.
Community policing in the new model of policing, is different from
traditional policing where police officers wait at police stations for
offences to be committed and go and arrest people and then do
investigations. The modern approach of policing is intelligence-led
or proactive and one of the ways to get intelligence is through
community policing, Marete added.
Thanking AMISOM for organizing the program, Shukri Keynan
Wehliye, a participant said she had understood the importance of
community policing.
The program was about the importance of interacting with the
police and reporting all criminal acts to security agents and also
considering a police officer as a friend and not an enemy in the war
against terror, said Ms Shukri.

Terrorism is the greatest threat to Somalias efforts toward peace

and stability, Marete noted.
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