STORY: Somali police and AMISOM agree to intensify

Mogadishu security ahead of elections

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DATELINE: 6/APRIL/2021, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot - Somali police officers on parade

2. Med shot - SPF Commander for Banadir Region General Sadiq Omar Hassan
welcoming AMISOM Police Commissioner, Assistant Inspector General of Police
(AIGP), Augustine Magnus Kailie
3. Med shot - AMISOM Police Commissioner, Assistant Inspector General of Police
(AIGP), Augustine Magnus Kailie arriving
4. Wide shot - SPF officers on parade
5. Med shot - Mogadishu City
6. Med shot - AMISOM police officers on patrol
7. Wide shot - AMISOM police officers on patrol
8. Med shot - AMISOM police officers on patrol
9. Wide shot - AMISOM police officers on patrol in Mogadishu City
10. Close up shot - boots
11. Wide shot - AMISOM Police Commissioner, Assistant Inspector General of Police
(AIGP), Augustine Magnus Kailie and his delegation at the Banaadir police station
12. Med shot - AMISOM Police Commissioner, Assistant Inspector General of Police
(AIGP), Augustine Magnus Kailie and his delegation at the Banaadir police station
13. Wide shot -AMISOM Police Commissioner, Assistant Inspector General of Police
(AIGP), Augustine Magnus Kailie meeting SPF senior leadership at the Banaadir police
station
14. Med shot - the delegation in the meeting
15. Close up shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie and AMISOM Police Chief of Staff,
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Rex Dundun at the meeting
16. Med shot - senior AMISOM police officers at the meeting
17. Med shot - senior Somali police officers at the meeting
18. Wide shot - General Mohamed Abdul Dore, the Somali Police Force liaison to
AMISOM speaking
19. Wide shot - SPF and AMISOM senior officers meeting
20. Close up shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie speaking
21. Close up shot - a senior SPF officer at the meeting
22. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) AMISOM Police Commissioner, Assistant Inspector
General of Police (AIGP), Augustine Magnus Kailie
“We are here to give you backup. The Security of Somalia will eventually be handed
over to you. So now that you are leading, we are by your side, supporting you. And
that is the essence we are here as AMISOM, so that we can deliberate on the
modalities of how we can assist you in joint patrols within the city.”

23. Close up shot - a senior SPF officer listening at the meeting

24. Med shot - senior AMISOM police officers
25. Wide shot - senior AMISOM police officers

Archive Footage:

26. Wide shot - SPF officers manning election security alongside AMISOM
27. Med shot - a resident of Banaadir casting a ballot
28. Med shot - residents observer the elections
29. Wide shot - SPF officers manning election security
30. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) AMISOM Police Commissioner, Assistant Inspector
General of Police (AIGP), Augustine Magnus Kailie
“Let the community be friends with the police. Let them be part of the policing
system because the number of policemen on ground is way below that of all the
people in Somalia. So if we cooperate with them, if they decide to be part of the
policing system, the intelligence network will be perfect.”

31. Med shot - General Mohamed Abdul Dore, the Somali Police Force liaison to
AMISOM and SPF Commander for Banadir Region General Sadiq Omar Hassan
32. Close up shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie
33. Close up shot - General Mohamed Abdul Dore, the Somali Police Force liaison to
AMISOM
34. Med shot - General Mohamed Abdul Dore, the Somali Police Force liaison to
AMISOM speaking
35. Wide shot, SPF and AMISOM police meeting
36. Med shot - AIGP Augustine Magnus Kailie hands over office equipment to Deputy
commander Banaadir police, General Mohamed Ismail
37. Wide shot - Group photo
Somali police and AMISOM agree to intensify Mogadishu security ahead of
elections

Mogadishu, April 7, 2021 – Ahead of the upcoming elections in Somalia, the Somali
Police Force (SPF) and the police component of the African Union Mission in Somalia
(AMISOM) are going to beef up security in Mogadishu through joint patrols to help
deter cases of violence and insecurity.

The proposed security plan was discussed on Tuesday in Mogadishu when the two
sides met at the Banadir Regional Police headquarters, led by the SPF Commander
for Banadir Region General Sadiq Omar Hassan and AMISOM Police Commissioner,
Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP), Augustine Magnus Kailie.

Speaking after holding a closed-door meeting with Gen. Hassan, AMISOM Police
Commissioner Kailie said the meeting with SPF was very productive and he called
upon residents of Mogadishu to closely work with the police in order to improve the
security of their city. He said the outcome of their meeting was that intensified joint
operations between SPF and AMISOM police would be undertaken to help secure
Mogadishu, and the greater region.

“We are here to give you backup. The Security of Somalia will eventually be handed
over to you. So now that you are leading, we are by your side, supporting you. That
is the essence of why we are here as AMISOM, so that we can deliberate on the
modalities of how we can assist you in joint patrols within the city,” AIGP Kailie said
to his host.

“Let the community be friends with the police. Let them be part of the policing
system because the number of policemen on ground is way below that of all the
people in Somalia. So if we cooperate with them, if they decide to be part of the
policing system, the intelligence network will be perfect,” Kailie added.

The two parties also discussed key security concerns in the upcoming elections, and
challenges facing SPF in the region, to which AIGP Kailie pledged AMISOM police’s
support.

“We need teamwork. Any activity or any deployment concerning Mogadishu we are
ready to collaborate, whether it’s mobile on patrols or on a joint task force for
Ramadhan operations. We need to work closely on everything,” said General
Mohamed Abdul Dore, the Somali Police Force liaison to AMISOM.
AIGP Kailie was accompanied to the meeting by key members of his leadership team,
including AMISOM Police Chief of Staff, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Rex
Dundun; DCP Daniel Ali Gwambal, the AMISOM Police Operations and Formed Police
Units Coordinator; Senior Superintendent of Police Emmanuel Rono, the AMISOM
Police Reform Restructuring and Development Coordinator; and Assistant
Commissioner of Police Koffi Avemenku, the AMISOM Police Training and
Development Coordinator.