Police Reform – 2002

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The personnel of the newly-formed force went through training and some 3,000 officers underwent classes on human rights.1

Postscript: A political training school was developed in Gishali and National Police Academy was set up in Ruhengeri in 2004.2 Community Partnership Programs and Community Partnership Committees were established at the neighborhood level and any unacceptable police behavior was recorded and communicated to the police hierarchy. The Police Training School was designed to professionalize the police service through the provision of basic training. The National Police Academy immediately removed officers from the force if any form of misconduct was detected. Police units with a Women’s Desk were established.3“Rwanda,” Security Reform Resource Center, 2010, accessed September 19, 2011, http://www.ssrresourcecentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Country-Prof…

Police Reform – 2000

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A head of the newly formed national police force was appointed in February 2000.4 Another piece of legislation concerning the Rwandan National Police (RNP) was passed under Law No. 09/2000 of June 16, 2000. This law combined further or officially joined the former Gendarmerie Nationale, which was under the Ministry of Defense, with the former Communal Police under the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Judicial Police under the Ministry of Justice.

Police Reform – 1999

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Prior to 1999, the National Unity Government apparently renegotiated the nature of police reforms that were needed and decided to unify all police forces in the country, which is within their mandate in the accord. In 1999, the Rwandan parliament passed a law establishing a national police force which integrated the national gendarmerie, the communal police, and judicial police.5