The Malawi Posts Corporation (MPC) is tightening security measures to reduce postal crime. Among others, MPC is implementing strategies that ensure only legal items pass through the post.<\/p>\n
Postmaster General, Andrew Kumbatira, made the revelations in Blantyre on Monday at the start of a five-day security training workshop conducted jointly with the Malawi Police Service.<\/p>\n
Kumbatira said MPC is working to ensure that criminals do not use Malawi as a conduit for contraband goods. He said MPC is committed to ensuring that its staff members are knowledgeable on ways to detect illegal items.<\/p>\n
\u201cMuch as trade is important for the development of the country, we need to ensure that only legal goods go through the post. Allowing our country to be a conduit for harmful substances may damage our reputation,\u201d Kumbatira said.<\/p>\n
He observed that as technology advances, criminals are also devising new ways of ensuring that they transport illegal substances from one part of the world to the other.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs such, knowledgeable and skilful employees are a critical ingredient in detecting harmful substances. We want to send a strong message out there that there is no passage for dangerous substances in Malawi,\u201d Kumbatira said.<\/p>\n
Kumbatira said the newly launched national identification programme will also help the Corporation to know its customers and in the process illegal transactions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the National Identity System, we will be confident on who we will be dealing with unlike the current situation where anybody could just claim to be a Malawian,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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