KAKOMA KANGANJA DEMANDS INTEGRITY AMONG OFFICERS

...Urged police chaplains to encourage faith and hope among officers and members of the community

GOout and inculcate core values such as integrity and hard work into police officers and their families, victims of crimes and the community, Inspector General of Police Kakoma Kanganja has advised the newly indicted chaplains in the Police Service.

Additionally, Mr Kanganja urged police chaplains to encourage faith and hope among officers and members of the community.

He noted that the office of the Chaplaincy played a critical role and sense of responsibility through offering spiritual, moral and emotional guidance.

The Inspector-General was speaking in Kitwe at the induction ceremony of 94 Chaplains at Kamfinsa School of Public Order yesterday.

"When our officers become morally upright, issues of indiscipline will be lessened, corruption tendencies will be minimised and we will hear a reduced cases of officers taking their own lives.

"Officers will be executing their duties without any form of injustice or impartiality because of the fear of God," he said.

Mr Kanganja expressed optimism that spiritual challenges that police officers, families, victims of crime and members of the public encountered would reduce or come to an end.

The Zambia Police service now has 160 inducted Chaplains serving across the country.

He said the service had this time around drawn officers from six provinces in an effort to decentralize operations of the Chaplaincy unit.

At the same occasion, Zambia Police Service Chaplain-General, Kondwelani Sakala, said the unit was determined to help the service and the country to mitigate corruption through preaching the word of God.

Bishop Sakala, therefore, called on the Police command to consider allowing the unit operate independently as a directorate on its own.