SOUTHERN PROVINCE MUHANGA — fifteen senior police officers in the southern and western provinces graduated with skills on disaster preparedness. The two day training held at St. Andre Kabgayi ended on March 19 and attracted regional and district police commanders-who gained skills on crisis response, disaster management and risk analysis. The training was sponsored by Forum des Activistas Contre Torture Rwanda (FACT-Rw) a disaster preparedness and response organization. Dr. Davis Karegeya Kashaka, a FACT-Rw official said that this mode of training was aimed at increasing the national capacity of crisis-response, recognition, analysis, planning and coordination among other forms of preparedness. Supt. Celestin Twahirwa, the national coordinator of Disaster Management Center (DMC), closed the training. “The training was timely and beneficiaries should be able to device specific mechanisms of addressing cases of disaster in their respective areas of operations, ” he remarked. Twahirwa also handed certificates of merit to the trained officers upon their graduation and urged them to be vibrant in addressing cases of risk embrassing disaster preparedness within their working sites . Disaster management officials revealed that the government has negotiated with United Nations Development Programme to sponsor the draft national disaster plan. Ends
