Tag: Gambia

News, Security

GPF Begins Nationwide Training On Community Policing, Gender & Child Responsive Policing

The Gambia Police Force, with support from UNICEF, is currently rolling out training programmes centered on community policing, gender, and child responsive policing across the country. The training will expose officers to topics relating to gender issues, child protection, and community policing in order to enhance safety and security for […]

News, Opinion

Gambia Needs a Professional Foreign Service, Not Politically Appointed Diplomats, Alagi Yoro Jallow writes

The Gambia’s Foreign Service Recruits’ Quality falling: And Whom Are The Gambia Government Sending As Our Country’s Ambassadors and Diplomatic Corps Abroad? Fatoumatta: Take for granted that there is anything imperial leftover from the colonial past in the Gambia. It is the recruitment method and appointment of foreign service officers […]

News, Security

Gambia police arrest 6 murder suspects

Following the armed robbery and subsequent death of a 20-year-old Senegalese national (Amat Touray) along the Palma Rima Beach on the 27/03/2022, rigorous investigation efforts by Kotu Police Station detectives uncovered evidence connecting a gang of six young men from Wellingara and Sinchu Baliya area. This followed an earlier report […]