SPF Officers Undertake Training On Sexual, Gender-Based Violence and Child Protection To Protect Women and Children

NR No: 047/2022 Date: 24 October 2022
STORY: SPF officers undertake training on Sexual, Gender-Based Violence

and Child Protection to protect women and children
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DATELINE: 23/OCTOBER/2022, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
SHOT LIST:
1. Wide shot - Female Somali Police Force (SPF) officers attending a

training on Sexual, Gender Based Violence and Child Protection.
2. Med shot - ATMIS Police Gender Officer, SP Bestna Sini, conducting a
training session.
3. Close up shot - ATMIS Police Gender Officer, SP Bestna Sini,
conducting a training session.
4. Wide shot – Female SPF officers at the training.
5. SOUNDBITE:(ENGLISH) SPF Deputy Police Commissioner, Brig.
Gen. Zakia Hussein Ahmed
“This is part of our efforts as the SPF leadership to make sure that our
police force adheres to international conventions that the Federal
Government of Somalia has signed.”
6. Med shot - ATMIS Police Gender Officer, SP Bestna Sini, conducting
a training session.
7. Wide shot - A training session.
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“We have started to see an increase in cases of GBV, child abuse and
child trafficking, and this is primarily because of the prevailing drought
and famine in the country but also the ongoing operations against the
Al-Shabaab in the regions, where a lot of children are being kidnapped
by the Al-Shabaab.”
9. Close up shot - Female SPF officers at the training.
10. Med shot - Female SPF officers at the training.
11. Wide shot - ATMIS Police Gender Officer, SP Bestna Sini, conducting
a training session.
12. Close up shot - A female SPF officer at the training.
13. Wide shot - An ATMIS police officer distributing pens at the training.
“Our police forces and security forces are being constantly trained and
spoken to about child protection and making sure that these young
underage kids who have been abused and used by the terror groups
are not used and abused by the security forces and that they are being
cared for.”
16. Wide shot - Female SPF officers at the training.
18. Close up shot - A female SPF officer at the training.
19. SOUNDBITE:(ENGLISH) ATMIS Police Gender Officer, SP Bestna
Sini
“This is part of the individual capacity building support that ATMIS is
providing to the Somali Police Force to capacitate the SPF in handling
these sensitive cases of SGBV and child abuses.”
21. Med shot - A female SPF officer speaking at the training.
23. Close up - A female SPF officer at the training.
24. SOUNDBITE:(SOMALI) Police Constable, Deeqo Isman Mahamud
“The training has enhanced my understanding of SGBV and child
protection issues which will help me discharge my duties, especially in
the protection of women and children from abuses.”
25. Wide shot - SPF and ATMIS police officers in a group photo after a
training session.
26. Med shot - SPF and ATMIS police walking away after a group photo.

SPF officers undertake training on Sexual, Gender-Based Violence and Child
Protection to protect women and children
Mogadishu 24th October 2022-Somali Police Force (SPF) officers are attending a
10-day refresher course to boost their knowledge and skills on Sexual, Gender-
Based Violence (SGBV) and Child Protection to enhance the protection of women
and children against all forms of abuse.
One hundred female police officers, drawn from the Banadir region, which
encompasses Mogadishu, are attending the training, organized by SPF, with the
support of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), police
component.
SPF Deputy Police Commissioner, Brigadier General Zakia Hussein Ahmed, on
Sunday said the training is timely and in line with recent reforms in the SPF and
capacity-building initiatives.
“This is part of our efforts as the SPF leadership to ensure that our police force
adheres to international conventions that the Federal Government of Somalia has
signed,” Brig. Gen. Zakia explained in an interview.
Brig. Gen. Zakia noted that the training will be extended to other regions, to enable
SPF officers better handle cases of SGBV and child abuse, given the recent spike in
cases in the country.
“We have started to see an increase in cases of GBV, child abuse and child
trafficking, and this is primarily because of the prevailing drought and famine in the
country, but also the ongoing operations against the Al-Shabaab in the regions,
where a lot of children are being kidnapped,” she noted.
According to Brig. Gen. Zakia, the liberation of new territories following the recent
military offensive against the Al-Shabaab by Somali security forces, supported by
ATMIS and local communities in central Somalia, had brought to the fore new and
disturbing cases of child abuse.
The ATMIS Police Gender Officer, Superintendent of Police (SP), Besta Sini, noted
that the training is in line with the ATMIS police mandate to train and mentor the
Somali Police Force.
“This is part of the individual capacity building support that ATMIS is providing to the
Somali Police Force to capacitate the SPF in handling these sensitive cases of
SGBV and child abuse,” SP Sini explained.

The officers are being trained on a number of modules including SGBV, handling
and investigation of SGBV, child protection and child abuse, human rights and
conflict-related sexual violence and other thematic topics.
Police Constable (CP) Deeqo Isman Mahamud, one of the participants said, the
training would enhance her understanding of SGBV and child protection issues
which will help her to discharge her duties, especially in the protection of women and
children from abuses.
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NR No: 047/2022 Date: 24 October 2022

STORY: SPF officers undertake training on Sexual, Gender-Based Violence

SOURCE: AMISOM PUBLIC INFORMATION

CREDIT REQUIRED: AMISOM PUBLIC INFORMATION

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/SOMALI NATURAL SOUND

DATELINE: 23/OCTOBER/2022, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

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