{"id":68520,"date":"2018-07-21T08:26:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T06:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68520"},"modified":"2018-07-21T08:26:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T06:26:35","slug":"malawi-police-service-opens-crime-analysis-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/21\/malawi-police-service-opens-crime-analysis-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Police Service opens crime analysis unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY <strong>WATIPASO MZUNGU, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A CONTRIBUTOR:<\/p>\n<p>The Malawi Police Service (MPS) Friday opened a Crime Analysis Unit, which is designed to enhance Malawi\u2019s response to transnational organised crime.<\/p>\n<p>The unit is a pilot project being financed by the European Union (EU) through the International Police (Interpol) under its project called Enect.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector General (IG) of Police, Rodney Jose, told The Daily Times that Malawi\u2019s unit is unique in the sense that it is the first of its kind in the whole African Region.<\/p>\n<p>Jose said the unit is already operational with officers, who have just completed the orientation, on the ground collecting data from different police stations for analysis using the provided analytical system to support police operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Enact Project aims at enhancing Africa\u2019s response to transnational organised crime; hence, the opening of this unit [in Malawi Police Service] is a mile ahead towards achieving the objectives of the project,\u201d Jose said.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that following the orientation and technical support from Enact Project, his charges are now equipped and committed to respond to transnational organised crime, which is in line with the Enact Project main objective.<\/p>\n<p>But Jose warned his charges against abuse of the resources, saying the financiers had spelt stringent conditions to their support, including termination of the agreement when cases of abuse of the resources is reported.<\/p>\n<p>Enact Project coordinator (Operational Support and Directorate), Richard-Bober Nathalie, pledged her organisation\u2019s support to the Malawi Police Service to enable them fight organised crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY WATIPASO MZUNGU, A CONTRIBUTOR: The Malawi Police Service (MPS) Friday opened a Crime Analysis Unit, which is designed to enhance Malawi\u2019s response to transnational organised crime. The unit is a pilot project being financed by the European Union (EU) through the International Police (Interpol) under its project called Enect. Inspector General (IG) of Police, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68523,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68520\/revisions\/68523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}