STORY: AMISOM reviews progress made in training,

mentoring Southwest State Police

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DATELINE: 15/FEBRUARY/2021, BAIDOA, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot - Parade mounted by the Ghanian FPU officers serving under AMISOM
2. Med shot - The officers holding the African Union and Ghana flags
3. Wide shot - A helicopter carrying the Police Commissioner of the African Union
Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP),
Augustine Magnus Kailie arriving
4. Close up shot - Ghana Police flag
5. Med shot - FPU officers from Ghana on parade
6. Med shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie getting off the helicopter
7. Wide shot - salute of honor for AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie
8. Close up shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie salutes
9. Med shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie and the AMISOM police senior
leadership team officers
10. Wide shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie inspecting the guard of honor
11. Wides shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie welcomed by senior officers
12. Wide shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie meeting senior officials
13. Close up shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie
14. Med shot - Senior police officers
15. Close up - Fadil Karar, AMISOM Coordinator for Southwest State attends the
meeting
16. Close up shot - Senior AMISOM Police officers
17. Wide shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie meeting senior police officers
18. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Augustine Magnus Kailie, The Police Commissioner of
the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), Assistant Inspector General of
Police (AIGP)
“My entourage comprising the Senior Leadership Team of the police component are
here on a working visit to see how our police component deployed here, that means
the Individual Police Officers (IPOs) and the Formed Police Unit (FPU) are faring on,
coordinating their activities with their civilian and military counterparts,”

19. Wide shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie addressing the officers
20. Med shot - The officers listening
21. Close up shot - Officers listening
22. Wide shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie addressing the officers
23. Med shot -AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie addressing the officers
24. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Augustine Magnus Kailie, The Police Commissioner of
the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), Assistant Inspector General of
Police (AIGP)
“We are also here to sensitize them about the elections. Elections are key for
Somalia like other countries. Elections play a Key role and to conduct elections, the
participants must be competitive. In competitions nobody wants to lose. So in that
case, they should be guided by rules and regulations and that is what we have come
to enforce to our IPOs, the FPU and our counterpart the SPF police that we are
mentoring,”

25. Med shot - The officers listening to AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie
26. Close up shot - Ghana flag
27. Med shot - Officers listening
28. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Augustine Magnus Kailie, The Police Commissioner of
the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), Assistant Inspector General of
Police (AIGP)
“AMISOM we have a Key role to play. We are supporting the SPF to provide security.
They are providing security but we will be by their side, guiding and advising them.
They have the key role to police the elections so that the elections can be free, fair
and very democratic,”

29. Med shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie addressing the officers
30. Wide shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie addressing the officers

AMISOM reviews progress made in training, mentoring Southwest State Police

BAIDOA, February 17, 2021—The Police component of the African Union Mission in
Somalia (AMISOM) has expressed satisfaction with the level of collaboration
between AMISOM Police and Southwest State Police.
AMISOM Police has Individual Police Officers and a contingent of Formed Police Unit
serving in Baidoa to help build the capacity of the Southwest State Police through
training, mentoring and provision of operational support.

On Monday, AMISOM Police Commissioner, Assistant Inspector General of Police

(AIGP), Augustine Magnus Kailie, and the senior leadership team of AMISOM Police
were in Baidoa, the Administrative capital of Southwest State of Somalia, to inspect
how the deployed officers were executing their duties, and advancing the mission’s
mandate.

AIGP Kailie, explained that the AU police deployed in the region will play an
important role in the upcoming Parliamentary and Presidential elections as members
of the National Elections Security Taskforce, which is the highest security organ
tasked with securing the elections. The Taskforce is chaired by the Somali Police
Force, with support from AMISOM Police.

He stressed the need for AMISOM Police to support the Southwest Police in securing
the electoral process, to ensure a safe and secure process.

“AMISOM is supporting the Somalia Police Force (SPF) to provide security during the
upcoming elections. We will be by their side, guiding and advising them. They have
the key role to police the elections so that the process is credible,” he said.

The AU Police Commissioner, however, stressed that the Somali police will take the
lead in securing the upcoming elections, with AMISOM police only offering support,
to ensure that the exercise is conducted peacefully and without any disruptions.

The senior leadership team during the visit also assessed how the different AMISOM
components are working together in advancing the mission’s mandate in the region.

“My entourage including the Senior Leadership Team of the police component are
also here to see how our police component deployed here, both the Individual Police
Officers (IPOs) and the Formed Police Unit (FPU) are coordinating their activities with
their civilian and military counterparts,” AIGP Kailie stated.