Police Exam Shall Reflect Each SubDivision, Division and Region- National Police Boss

 National Security Boss Martin Mbarga Nguele

The controversial Police entrance examination written some months back is yet to be made public in spite calls that the exams be cancelled given that the English version of the questions were poorly translated. Many Anglophones saw the poor translation as a deliberate attempt to ensure that Cameroonian of English expression find difficulty in answering thereby paving way for more Francophone candidates to take all. While in Bamenda to decorate some ten Police officers for a courageous service to the state recently, National Security Delegate, Martin Mbarga Nguele announced that the unpublished Police Entrance results shall be made public as soon as infrastructure to host the huge intake are ready.

To further clear any doubts in peoples minds, he said this result which shall be reflected in all the subdivisions in the country shall be purely on merits. The required 3000 constables shall be published Sub divisionally, 1200 Police Inspectors shall be published at Divisional level while 350 superintendents of Police shall be published at the level of the Region. The required quota of candidates from the various Subdivisions, Divisions and Regions shall be gotten from those that sat for the entrance exam.

Talking about the newly created Police training college at Kedjom Keku, the National Police Chief said it would go operational as soon as work is completed. To him the quality of work done is not the best to host candidates on training especially those coming from other countries. The Police Chief expressed disappointment that the contract to renovate and restructure these structures left behind by the road works construction company in order to host the new Police College was entrusted to a contractor who is a son of the soil.   Eden got the name of the contractor as Prof Peter Abety being accused of delaying the takeoff at the training center with poorly executed job. The mayor of Tubah, Tanjong Martin also finds it difficult to understand why the work is taking so long. On his part Professor Abety rather says work on the project as specified on the contract was long completed and delivered a year ago with all money paid in and that he is rather spending extra resources (FCFA 80.000) as a concerned son of the soil to clean the place which was abandoned in the bush. Professor Abety also revealed that there was allocation in this year’s budget to construct classrooms at the Police which the Police Boss has not awarded the contract then how can he blame to take off the school on the renovation of 20 years old structures that were dormitories used by workers of the roadwork company. As at now training facilities are not yet available at the training center.

The Police Boss while visiting the site for new Police School and was presented a gift of a stool from the Palace, thanked the huge population of Kedjomkeku that turn out to welcome him saying very soon the Police Health Center at the training center shall go functional and that subsequent recruitments in to the corps shall also follow suit given that presently there is need for 9000 Police officers and results of the first phase shall be published soon. He furthered that Cameroon happened to have gained the confidence of some African countries that send in candidates for training or for refresher courses in the country’s Police school.

The main objective of the Police Boss’s visit to the North West Region was to decorate some ten Police officers with promotion in to various ranks following a spectacular act fueling a bomb blast masterminded by some SCNC militants, during the 2015 May 20^th celebration in Mezam. This patriotic act by these courageous men in uniform did not go unnoticed by hierarchy. The names of the suspected initiators of locally manufactured bombs destined to carry out blast at any 20^th May celebration in Mezam are still not made public. While conferring this recognition from the Head of State Paul Biya, the National Police Chief reiterated that this bravery is overwhelming for others to emulate. In a welcome address from the Bamenda Government Delegate presented by Jude Waindim the Bamenda City Council Permanent Secretary lauded the collaboration demonstrated between the Regular Police and the City Council Police in the exercise of their function. He called on the Council Police to shun bad practices and emulate some the good examples set forth by the regular Police corps. With this, many wondered aloud whether the Police corps branded over the years and smeared with the syndrome of bribe taking and corruption, do have any grains of good lessons to give the Council Police who themselves are plunged in open corrupt practice. The Police corps was challenged to appropriate all the lands occupied by the Police corps with structures in the Region.