UBA Eric Lofgren, who otherwise works in Kalmar, and Peter Ajnevall, from Lulea, arrived in July and was sent after a crash course in Khartoum to the south. They landed first in a village along the Nile, with a police station but not much more. It was self-applicable.
"We bought every now and then a goat in the market, cut up and put in casserole. And löptränade, that was all you could do in their spare time, "says Erik Löfgren.
The UN has 750 police officers in Southern Sudan to monitor the security around valstugorna. But above all, they train the new police force. 6000 new police officers have just graduated with help from UN agency UNDP.
-There is much about human rights, how detainees should be treated. If basic policing in a democracy, "said Peter Ajnevall.
-Almost no one has been a cop for more than five years since the peace agreement 2005th Most are former guerrilla fighters who do not know anything about policing.
Juba is a dusty provincial hole, but it becomes autonomous southern Sudanese capital of the majority chooses separation, which is the most likely. The city has about 300,000 inhabitants, but the move is great and an exact number is not. Swedes hold courses in police work, with up to 250 participants. It teaches that the police should be neutral, treating all equally and not vent their own opinions.
- The police role is unclear, you're getting into things that are not police, and often take on a judicial role. We try to teach what they should devote themselves to, and not. If a man cast glances at the neighbor's wife does not mean he should be locked up a few days, said Erik Löfgren.
A major problem is that children are arrested and put in the same prisons as adults.
-Children can be subjected to abuse. We are trying to influence the police to speed up these cases. Perhaps it is better that young boys are locked up in the women's prison?
The Swedes also do patrols with the Sudanese police. But only as advisers, the UN mandate gives them no right to bear arms or to intervene.
