Scotland Police is delivering a two-week training on human rights protection to facilitators at the Malawi Police Service, as a long-standing partnership between Malawi and Scotland.
Speaking during the opening of the training at Kanjedza Police Training School in Blantyre, Sergeant Calum Spence for Police Scotland, said the training mostly tackles child protection matters, sexual offences and gender-based violence which are rampant globally.
Commissioner of the Malawi Police for South West Region, Noel Kayira, said the training has come at the right time as issues of human rights abuses are common in the country.
Kayira urged the participants to utilise the training in gaining knowledge of curbing the vice.
The training, which has brought together 80 participants from police formations across Malawi, comes as the country joins the rest of the world in the UN’s 16 days of action against gender based violence.
