The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) Tuesday began training some 200 police officers tasked with protecting refugees and displaced people in eastern Chad.
Police officers with the UN mission, known as MINURCAT, are carrying out the program, which aims to train 850 police officers by the end of September, a UN press release said.
The training is part of a wider initiative to ensure the safety and security of an estimated 250,000 refugees and 180,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in the east of the country.
Created last September, MINURCAT's role is to reinforce security, administration and the justice system to help create the conditions for refugees and IDPs to return voluntarily and safely to their homes.
The mission will help protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid to thousands of people uprooted by insecurity in the northeast of the CAR and eastern Chad and in the neighboring Darfur region of western Sudan.
Source:Xinhua
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