GOBABIS: Safety and Security Minister Nangolo Mbumba has issued a stern warning to Namibian Police trainees not to indulge in illegal activities or work in cahoots with criminals as it tarnishes the image of the Force.

He also implored the trainees to have a clear understanding of the fact that police officers are part of the community and are not above the law, saying police officers are in fact servants of the communities they are expected to serve.

The minister made these remarks when he officially commissioned the first police basic training course for the current financial year at the Pius Joseph Kaundu Training Centre in the Omaheke Region last Friday.

The centre is situated some 70 kilometres outside Gobabis.

Urging them to take the training seriously, Mbumba said the participants should consider themselves lucky to have been chosen out of a pool of applicants who had all been vying for the same purpose.

2 (GOBABIS) – The Gobabis Single Quarters, one of a few such structures remaining countrywide, will soon be demolished to make way for modern housing.

The Gobabis Municipality also plans to relocate people living at the current single quarters to a new spot that will be known as Omugulugwombashe.

The municipality is currently hard at work finalising logistics to make sure that the area is habitable, and conforms to basic sanitation and hygiene requirements.

According to officials at the municipality, the new area will also be clearly demarcated, and will cater for at least 180 households from the single quarters.

The single quarters here, a pre-independence phenomenon throughout the country where single, working males were housed, have now reportedly become unhygienic, unsafe and overcrowded.

(edited)HERE IS TODAY’S BULLETIN FOR 08H00 TUESDAY, 24 JULY 2012 NAMIBIA PRESS AGENCY

1 (GOBABIS) – Safety and Security Minister Nangolo Mbumba has issued a stern warning to Namibian Police trainees not to indulge in illegal activities or work in cahoots with criminals as it tarnishes the image of the Force.

He also implored the trainees to have a clear understanding of the fact that police officers are part of the community and are not above the law, saying police officers are in fact servants of the communities they are expected to serve.

The minister made these remarks when he officially commissioned the first police basic training course for the current financial year at the Pius Joseph Kaundu Training Centre in the Omaheke Region last Friday.

The centre is situated some 70 kilometres outside Gobabis.

Urging them to take the training seriously, Mbumba said the participants should consider themselves lucky to have been chosen out of a pool of applicants who had all been vying for the same purpose.

2 (GOBABIS) – The Gobabis Single Quarters, one of a few such structures remaining countrywide, will soon be demolished to make way for modern housing.

The Gobabis Municipality also plans to relocate people living at the current single quarters to a new spot that will be known as Omugulugwombashe.

The municipality is currently hard at work finalising logistics to make sure that the area is habitable, and conforms to basic sanitation and hygiene requirements.

According to officials at the municipality, the new area will also be clearly demarcated, and will cater for at least 180 households from the single quarters.

The single quarters here, a pre-independence phenomenon throughout the country where single, working males were housed, have now reportedly become unhygienic, unsafe and overcrowded.