STORY: 300 SPF officers begin special tactics training

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LANGUAGE: SOMALI/ENGLISH NATURAL SOUND
DATELINE: 6/JANUARY/2020, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot, Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP) Augustine Magnus Kailie,
AMISOM Police Commissioner, arriving at the General kahiye police training
academy to attend the integration of Darwish police
2. Med shot, Darwish police officers on parade
3. Close up shot, Somalia national flag
4. Med shot, Augustine Magnus Kailie, AMISOM Police Commissioner, Assistant
Inspector General of Police (AIGP) and Meinolf Schlotmann, UNSOM Police
Commissioner
5. Wide shot, Maj. Gen. Abdi Hassan Mohamed, Somali Police Commissioner arriving
to attend the event
6. Wide shot, Darwish police officers
7. Wide shot, Maj. Gen. Abdi Hassan Mohamed, Somali Police Commissioner being
saluted
8. Med shot, parade of honor for Maj. Gen. Abdi Hassan Mohamed, Somali Police
Commissioner
9. Wide shot, Darwish police officers marching
10. Close up shot, officers marching
11. Med shot, officers marching
12. Wide shot, officers marching
13. Wide shot, the officers assemble inside a hall
14. Med shot, Augustine Magnus Kailie, AMISOM Police Commissioner and Maj. Gen.
Abdi Hassan Mohamed, Somali Police Commissioner
15. Close up shot, a unit commander salutes the police commissioners
16. Med shot, Darwish officers
17. Wide shot, the police training school commandant speaking
18. Close up shot, senior Somali police officers listening
19. Wide shot, Darwish officers listening
20. Med shot, Maj. Gen. Abdi Hassan Mohamed, Somali Police Commissioner
speaking
21. Close up shot, officers listening
22. Med shot, officers listening
23. Wide shot, Maj. Gen. Abdi Hassan Mohamed, Somali Police Commissioner
speaking
24. Med shot, officers listening
25. Med shot, Maj. Gen. Abdi Hassan Mohamed, Somali Police Commissioner
speaking
26. Wide shot, officer listening
27. SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Maj. Gen. Abdi Hassan Mohamed, Somali Police
Commissioner
“At the end of this training, our police special forces including the Haramcad (trained
by Turkey), the Darwish forces and the Birmad; the combined capability of all these
forces, fully equipped will constitute a major force that can secure Mogadishu.”

28. Med shot, Augustine Magnus Kailie, AMISOM Police Commissioner speaking
29. Med shot, officers listening
30. Close up shot, officers listening
31. Close up shot, Maj. Gen. Abdi Hassan Mohamed, Somali Police Commissioner
listening
32. Close up shot, Meinolf Schlotmann, UNSOM Police Commissioner
33. Close up shot, Darwish officers
34. SOUNDBITE: (English) Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP) Augustine
Magnus Kailie, AMISOM Police Commissioner
“As we have come to assist, build your capacity, you also should stand in ready to
see how best you can tap from the various experiences and support so that you
Somalis, the Darwish especially, should stand firm to defend the people of Somalia.”

35. Close up shot, senior Somali and UNSOO police officers

36. Close up shot, a Darwish officer listening to Meinolf Schlotmann, UNSOM Police
Commissioner
37. Close up shot, AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie, AMISOM Police Commissioner
38. Med shot, Meinolf Schlotmann, UNSOM Police Commissioner speaking
39. Wide shot, officers listening
40. Med shot, senior AMISOM and Somali police officers listening
41. Wide shot, officers listening
42. Med shot, senior AMISOM and UNSOM police officers
43. SOUNDBITE: (English) Meinolf Schlotmann, UNSOM Police Commissioner
“If you act as a team, the approach will be much greater and you will have much
more success to serve your communities.”
44. Wide shot, Darwish police officers
45. SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Safia Ahmed Ali, a Federal Darwish police
“I am happy to be part of the Somali Police Forces especially the Darwish police. I
am ready to be deployed anywhere to defend my people and provide services.”

300 SPF officers begin special tactics training

Mogadishu, 07 January—About three hundred (300) Somali police officers are

undergoing specialized training at the General Kahiye Police Training Academy in
Mogadishu, Somalia, after which they will form part of the Federal Darwish Police—a
special tactics unit of the police.

“At the end of this training, our police special forces including the Haramcad,
Darwish and the Birmad will be fully equipped and their combined capability will
constitute a major force that can secure population centers,” said the Somali Police
Commissioner, Maj. Gen. Abdi Hassan Mohamed, at the official opening ceremony of
the training.

The Federal Government of Somalia has embarked on a drive to revive the Darwish
special police unit by extensive recruitment and refresher training throughout 2020.

The training is being conducted by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)
Police component, United Nations Police (UNPOL), European Union Capacity Building
Mission in Somalia (EUCAP) United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM)
and European Union Training Mission in Somalia (EUTM) through the Joint Police
Program.

The Joint Police Program is a 5-year program led by the Federal Government of
Somalia, with funding from the European Union, UK Aid and the German Federal
Foreign Office. The Joint Police Program supports increased police visibility, presence,
capability and accountability and the implementation of the New Policing Model in
Somalia at Federal and Federal Member State level.

AMISOM Police Commissioner, Augustine Magnus Kailie, said such training was
crucial in transforming the SPF into a capable force that can protect the people of
Somalia.

“As we have come to assist, build your capacity, you also should be standing ready to
see how best you can tap from the various experiences and support you will receive
so that as the Darwish especially, you will stand firm to defend the people of
Somalia,” AIG Augustine Magnus said.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) Police Commissioner,

Meinolf Schlotmann, urged the officers to work as a team saying success of their
mission hinges on unity of purpose.

“If I can give you one advice only; please work as a team and that will make you
successful. If you act as a team, the output will be much greater and you will have
much more success to serve your communities,” said Meinolf.

Upon completion of the training, this unit will be integrated into the Somali Police
Force and deployed to all the Federal Member States of the Government of Somalia.