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General Olangué completes Congolese gendarmerie tour

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Brigadier General Gildas Olangué, commander of the Congolese national gendarmerie, has completed a 15-day tour of the country’s 14 gendarmerie regions in Brazzaville. His discussions covered serious crime, juvenile crime and urban traffic, according to Les Échos du Congo-Brazzaville.

Brigadier General Gildas Olangué, commander of the Congolese national gendarmerie, has completed a nearly 15-day tour of Congo’s 14 gendarmerie regions in Brazzaville. He met officers, non-commissioned officers and enlisted personnel from the Brazzaville region, reports Les Échos du Congo-Brazzaville.

At the end of the tour, General Olangué asked his troops to improve their results in tackling serious crime, juvenile crime and difficulties linked to traffic in major cities. He stressed discipline, honour and ethics, which he described as the foundations of the gendarme’s profession.

Colonel Benjamin Richard Ifoko, commander of the 1st Mobile Gendarmerie Group, reviewed the forces stationed in Brazzaville before the national commander’s address, according to Les Échos du Congo-Brazzaville. The tour had taken the delegation in particular to Kinkala, Pointe-Noire, Dolisie, Madingou, Djambala, Owando, Ouesso and Impfondo.

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