STORY: AMISOM to recruit 800 new police officers in

HirShabelle state
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DATELINE: 5/OCTOBER/2018, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot, AMISOM, Federal Government and Hirshabelle State

Police officials together with the Deputy SRCC Simon Mulongo and
Acting AMISOM Police Commissioner, Christine Alalo seated at the
high table.
2. Med shot, Acting AMISOM Police Commissioner, Christine Alalo
together with the Deputy SRCC, Simon Mulongo and the Hirshabelle
Internal Security Minister at the high table.
3. Close up shot, The Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson
of the African Union Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia, Simon
Mulongo.
4. Med shot, Acting AMISOM Police Commissioner, Christine Alalo
together with the Hirshabelle Internal Security Minister at the high
table.

5. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) ACTING AMISOM POLICE COMMISSIONER,

CHRISTINE ALALO.
“This is a way of starting the transition plan. One of the objectives is to
be able to support them with logistics, to be able to take over full
responsibility and there is no way they can take over full responsibility
unless they have the equipment, unless they have the logistics to
support them to do that.”

6. Med shot, guests present clapping their hands.

7. Med shot, drive testing the pickup vehicle
8. Med Close up shot, bonnet of the pickup vehicle.
9. Close up shot, headlight of the pickup vehicle.

10. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) CTING AMISOM POLICE COMMISSIONER,

CHRISTINE ALALO.
“From 1st of November, we shall start recruiting the first batch of 200
police officers for Hirshabelle and hopefully after the training, they will
 be deployed along the Main Supply Routes or other populated areas;
and this vehicle will help the commissioner move around and monitor
the activities of his men and women.”

11. Med shot, AMISOM and Hirshabelle police officers together with the
Deputy SRCC, Simon Mulongo and the Advisor to the Federal Internal
Security Minister, Ahmed Koshin listening to speeches.
12. Med Close up shot, Deputy SRCC, Simon Mulongo and the Advisor to
the Federal Internal Security Minister Ahmed Koshin at the high
table.

13. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) ADVISOR TO THE INTERNAL SECURITY

MINISTER OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF SOMALIA, AHMED
KOSHIN.
“We fully understand that AMISOM has been working with us hand in
hand in terms of rebuilding our Somali security forces, in particular,
the police who have been championed by Christine and the rest of her
crew and EU which has been critically important in terms of
financing.”

14. Close up shot, a UN official listening at the high table.

15. Med shot, UN officials listening to the speech.
16. Med shot, Deputy SRCC, Simon Mulongo and the Hirshabelle Security
Minister at the high table.

17. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE

CHAIRPERSON OF THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION (DSRCC),
SIMON MULONGO.
“Behind that vehicle is the spirit of rebuilding and peace consolidation
of Somalia. That spirit is bigger than that vehicle. That vehicle
represents the will of the international community to help the people
of Somalia, to help the government both at federal and member
states to rise up and take charge of the responsibilities expected of
any government in the world.”

18. Med shot, Ag. AMISOM Police Commissioner, Christine Alalo guides
the Hirshabelle Police Commissioner sign handover documents, while
the Deputy SRCC, Simon Mulongo looks on.
19. Close up shot, Hirshabelle Police Commissioner.
20. Med shot, Ag. AMISOM Police Commissioner, Christine Alalo writing
on a document.
21. Wide shot, AMISOM, FGS and Hirshabelle officials move to cut a tape
to symbolise the vehicle handover.
22. Med shot, Deputy SRCC, Simon Mulongo and his Somali counterparts
cut the tape.
 23. Med shot, Deputy SRCC Simon Mulongo hands over car keys to the
Hirshabelle Internal Security Minister.
24. Wide shot, Deputy SRCC, Simon Mulongo and the Acting AMISOM
Police Commissioner, Christine Alalo, FGS and Hirshabelle state
officials atop the pickup vehicle.
25. Med shot, Deputy SRCC, Simon Mulongo and the Acting AMISOM
Police Commissioner, Christine Alalo, FGS and HirShabelle state
officials atop of the donated pick up vehicle.

STORY

AMISOM to recruit 800 new police officers in HirShabelle state

Mogadishu, 5 October 2018 - The African Union Mission in Somalia

(AMISOM), has announced plans for a new police recruitment drive in
HirShabelle state.

A total of 800-police officers will be recruited in an exercise due to start this

November.

“From 1st of November, we shall start the recruitment of the first batch of 200
police officers for Hirshabelle State,” Ms. Christine Alalo, the Acting AMISOM
Police Commissioner said.

“Hopefully after the training, they will be deployed along the Main Supply
Routes and other populated areas in the state,” she noted.

Ms. Alalo was speaking in Mogadishu yesterday, during a handover of a motor

vehicle to the HirShabelle State Police.

“One of our objectives is to support the Somali Police Force with logistics, to
be able to take over full responsibility and there is no way they can take over
full responsibility unless they have the equipment,” Ms. Alalo stated..

The vehicle donated by AMISOM, was handed over to the HirShabelle

Minister of Internal Security Mr. Abdi Adan Jelle and the Hirshabelle Police
Commissioner Mr. Hassan Dhi’isow and senior Federal Government officials.

The vehicle will boost policing activities in the state as AMISOM transitions
the security responsibility to the Somali security forces.

“The donation signifies the spirit of rebuilding and peace consolidation of

Somalia, represented by the will of the international community to help the
people of Somalia, to help the government both at federal and member
states, to rise up and take charge of the responsibilities expected of any
government in the world,” said Mr. Simon Mulongo, the deputy Head of
AMISOM, who officiated the handover ceremony.

In his remarks, the HirShabelle Minister of Internal Security Mr. Abdi Adan
Jelle, lauded AMISOM for the donation, which he said would help strengthen
police operations in the state.

The Senior Advisor to the Federal Minister of Internal Security Mr. Ahmed
Kooshin, acknowledged the enormous support AMISOM has continued to
accord to the Federal Government and the Federal Member States.

“AMISOM has been working with us hand in hand, in terms of rebuilding our
Somali security forces, in particular the police,” Kooshin noted, while also
lauding the European Union for providing critical financing to key projects in
Somalia.

END