Police on the Copperbelt have been sternly warned against misbehaving because they would be transfered to work in rural areas if found wanting.
Copperbelt Commissioner Mary Tembo has warned that she will not hesitate to transfer police officers who fail to deliver to the people’s expectations.She was speaking when she visited two traditional rulers in Masaiti district.
Ms Tembo said that she wanted to ensure that the police presence was felt in all areas including the rural parts of the Copperbelt.She said that she would visit selected chiefdoms on the Copperbelt to consult traditional rulers on the setting up of police stations and posts in order to provide security to the people.
Ms Tembo who visited senior chief Chiwala and senior Chief Mushili said that there was no need to wait for the government’s instructions to put up police posts but that her office and traditional rulers would work hand in hand to ensure security in the province.
She said that she wanted traditional rulers to offer land for the construction of police stations to avoid problems in future. She said the construction of more police stations in rural areas would help fight crime because there was lawlessness going by the recent incident where a 14 year-old girl of Chief Chiwala’s area was raped and gave birth to triplets.
She asked the chiefs to give her names of areas that required police presence but emphasized that they should also be ready to offer land for the construction of police officers.
Ms Tembo however assured the chiefs that mobile police officers would soon be deployed in their chiefdoms in readiness for the construction of police stations.
Senior chief Chiwala said that the distance to the nearest police stations had hindered people from reporting cases to the police a situation where even murderers had gone scot free.
He said that his area only had a police station when Mbwana Mkubwa Mine was operational but from the time it was closed some Congo DR nationals had invaded his chiefdom causing serious deforestation.
Senior Chief Mushili said that police officers at the station in his chiefdom were not doing anything to improve the security situation adding that there was need to replace them.
The police commissioner also visited the newly constructed Muliashi mine in Luanshya where she told management to prepare documents for the construction of a police post in the area.
What impression are you giving to those working in villages? Workers should encouraged. Wherever you are, you are a policeman
I was thinking of the same.
And who told Copperbelt Commissioner Mary Tembo tha we in the rural are happy with police officers who fail to deliver to the people’s expectation? Such leadership is a shame to the people of Zambia who deserve better. Please Madam Tembo just discipline your workforce and stop sacrificing your roots. When the roots are destroyed, the tree will wither and die.
You are killing Zambia.
VOCABULARY YABA ‘they should also be ready to offer land for the construction of police officers.’ Improve”
USELESS…does transfering someone to the village deter the would be offenders…i concur with you@ Mbulo Maso…this is a stupid statement…shahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh………..
Let your company transfer you there if you don’t work efficiently your language shall change lol.
Very dull Police Commisioner and she must be fired for expressing her ignorance through the media. If Police Service fails to discipline the officers do you think taking them to rural areas is the solution?
Do people in rural areasreally only deserve mediocrity from the Govt? For disciplinary reasons and non-performance, civil servants – teachers, police, nurses etc are sent to remote areas. No wonder there is massive rural-urban drift and Zambia is one of the highly urbanised countries in Africa.
This Commissioner is very dull and very unproffessional! Is she telling us that sending cops to villages will change their attitude or what? Why do we keep recruiting incopentent people in the police ?
What I gather from this report is that the rural areas are places of punishment (kumbo, siberia or hell) and offenders are sent there! And we wonder why rural areas are given scant economic attention. This attitude by GVT officials is testimony that rural areas and dwellers thereof are regarded as third class citizens.Â
Can you please rephrase your tittle to this story, you are very confusing!
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Stupid & unprofessional talk!!!
She means that cops working in rural areas are on punishment  – away from Nchekeleko.
And she is called a Commissioner??? fo.olish
Its un believable that in this day and age we have stupid officials who think so low.This like wantanshi has said, is just how low our so called GVT thinks of our rural areas.In my view policemen serving in rural areas should be treated with just as much respect as the ones serving in towns or Urban areas.The moment we start seeing serving our people in rural areas as punishment we then send a message to our police that one has to be in town and not the village.Our citzens in rural areas also deserve well qualified and diciplined police not stupid corrupt police sent there on punishment.This kind of thinking i find very disturbing,stupid and naive.
She means that sending police officers to rural areas is a kind of punishment.
She wants to send non-performas to the rural areas and then full people that she has openned police posts.She has to RESIGN for failure to show leadership.If she was reasonable enough,she’d encourage officers to save in rural areas as opposed to descriminating them.Fool of a leader
Can some one plz retire this basterd so called commissioner tembo.after all she is the one who punished her fellow police for not saluting her when infact the otha officer was on fone.does she think village pipo are the ones to be given resdues?***** commissioner
yes can you please rephrase your tittle to this story, you are very confusing!
To : Copper-belt Police Commissioner to punish ailing cops by banishing them into rural areas as 14 yr old rape victim gives birth to triplets
Always small minds are a big problem, so you want st.u.pid police officers to be in villages just eat people’s gots?
think twice madam police….
Ok, this whole article is just misleading. Ba LT, you did it again!!!!!!!
what a dull speech..
In short to send the officer in rural area is a punishment because no officer wants to work in the rural areas where there is no moni in the pocket. In rural areas there is a lot of moni and one with brain can save a lot.
Whats the difference between an officer working in Ndola and one working in chief Chiwala or chief Mushili? The distance of few minutes.
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So ba BUJU balipa Warning and Caution. A kalakwa, bamupeleka ku dyole kwa SHANGOMBO.BUJU
What impression are you giving to these policemen??? Why should working in rural areas be used as a threat ? Are you saying that rural areas do not deserve good policing? What ignorance! No wonder rurral areas are not well developed coz people have always shunned as areas for second class citizens!! What utter ignorance!! If you look at the developed countries, rural areas are well developed and people who want to live a peaceful life move to the ‘country’ where there is everything in place, including good policing !!!
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