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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / POLICE COMMISSIONER PRESSER
TRT: 01:28
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 FEBUARY 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Press Briefing
2. Med shot, Spokesperson and Police Commissioner seated
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Fred Yiga, UNMISS Police Commissioner:
“We are now in agreement with SSNPS that the tr ansformation process must happen. There is now that agreement. If I need help and I don’t show you that I need help that help will never help me. But there is now a clear understanding that SSNPS needs help and we have also determined as UN that we are going to give as much help as we can.”
4. Cutaway, Press Briefing
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Fred Yiga, UNMISS Police Commissioner:
“The goal is to make sure that JIP addresses the POC issues. Can people get back home? Really? Can they go back home? And when they get back home can they be protected? The Joint Integrated Police should be able to do this and we want to inject in as much professionalism as we can.”
6. Cutaway, Press Briefing
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Fred Yiga, UNMISS Police Commissioner:
“I still have good hopes for this country. Right now what is at stake is implementing the peace agreement. Just that! That’s the bridge we must cross. Once we cross that bridge. I think sky will be the limit.”
13. Close up, new UN Police Commissioner
14. Med shot, new and outgoing UN PC at the briefing
After nine years and nine months serving for the United Nations in South Sudan, the last three and a half in a role of a UN Police Commissioner, Fred Yiga of Uganda is handing over the job of running the 561-strong UN police force to Bruce Munyambo of Rwanda.
Yiga said that he is pleased with the rate of progress the SSNPS (South Sudan National Police Service) is transforming itself into a truly National Police Service.
He said he has mixed emotions on his departure as he feels there is still a lot more work to be done in the country but he has “high hopes for the country.”
The new UN Police Commissioner is Bruce Munyambo, a Rwandan Commissioner of Police and a veteran in Peacekeeping operations having served in UN Peacekeeping Missions in Liberia and Haiti.
