By Edwin Mbewe

BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi Police Service (MPS) has embarked on capacity building as it is drilling its officers across all its policing regions countrywide on Electoral Laws and Public Order Management.

This is the move to capacitate officers for free, fair, and credible 2025 tripartite general elections,

Speaking at the closing ceremony of the week-long training at Limbe on Friday, August 30, 2024, MPS Southern Region commissioner Noel Kayira urged the participants to put in real life the simulation they demonstrated during the ceremony.

“I am excited with what I have seen today and I believe that you will do the same in all process of the elections hence achieving free, fair and credible elections.

“We have to learn from our past experience and with this training I am upbeat we will professionally execute our duties to attain the desired goal. Let me take this opportunity to applaud the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for sponsoring these trainings”, said Kayira.

The second phase of the training had 360 participants and a total of 560 officers have already undergone the same.

The other phase is slated for next week at Mtakataka, Limbe, Mlangeni Police Training Schools, and Zomba Police College.

The officers are being drilled on Public Order Management, Tactical Considerations, Ethics, Human Rights and Policing, and Human Rights and Policing of Elections among others with funding from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).