Police Reform – 2009
2009
Once the National Police Bill was passed in 2008, the Khartoum Legislative Council passed the Khartoum State Police Act in August 2009. Similarly, the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly passed the Southern Sudan Police Bill in October 2009. The Joint Integrated Police Unit remained deployed in Abyei town. Remarkable progress was made in capacity building and in the standards of the GoNU Police and Southern Police Service. In December 2009, the police unit of the UNMIS concluded 48 training courses in which 1,058 local police officers (418 GoS and 640 SSPS) participated in those courses, including 73 female officers. The UNMIS Police trained 8,351 (6004 GoS and 2,347 SSPS) local police officers, including 763 females, in Election Security Training. It was also reported that 26,955 SSPS officers had been fully registered from Sector I, II & III.1