Officers Attend Course On Gender-Based Violence

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Sexual and gender-based violence, which have devastating effects on women and children will no longer be seen as trivial and very personal, The Monitor is informed.

Speaking at a graduation ceremony of a gender-based violence course at International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Otse, class (for the course) representative Thomas Rogers from Sierra Leone said  priorities are given to crimes like, burglary, murder, arson, fraud, and terrorism among others. Little do policy makers realise that most of these offences originate from homes, he added.

Rogers was part of a 26 law group graduating from International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) from across Africa in a week-long course, dubbed 'Policing Gender Based Violence.

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