Freeman Razemba in Tanzania
Zimbabwe has counseled its counterparts in SADC for continued cooperation in preventing crime saying these relations additionally date again to the times of the liberation battle.

This was mentioned by Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to Tanzania Lieutenant Basic (RTD) Anselem Sanyatwe after the arrival of visiting Zimbabwe Republic Cops who’re participating within the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation (SARPCCO) which are supposed to create a platform for cops within the area to interact in fruitful interplay, sharing concepts on policing traditions and fostering regional friendship, understanding and cooperation by means of sport.

A delegation of about 200 ZRP officers and officers led by Commissioner Abigail Moyo are amongst members who’re collaborating within the video games.

In an interview, Ambassador Sanyatwe hailed the relations and togetherness that live on between SADC member states.

“To be trustworthy with you, I want to first take you barely again. After we are speaking of SADC, SADC member states, it’s my perception that, right here you’re in Tanzania, Tanzania was mainly chargeable for the liberation of the whole SADC member states and the connection due to this fact dates again to the times of the liberation battle.

“As you’re conscious that the Republic of Zimbabwe was and stays to be the second born of the United Republic of Tanzania after the sister Republics of Angola and Mozambique. So we got here after these two republics adopted by Namibia and finally South Africa.

“Provided that background, SADC has mainly remained a household and beneath that one household, stays a workforce. It due to this fact follows on that with the spirit of togetherness among the many legislation enforcement brokers of SADC,” he mentioned.

He mentioned on account of this, they’ve witnessed a considerable progress by way of combating crime inside the area.

“I feel a yr in the past, we additionally even hosted our Commissioner Basic, Basic Godwin Matanga and his workforce when he was right here in Tanzania when he had come for inspection programmes of the regional forces inside SADC,” Ambassador Sanyatwe mentioned.

He mentioned with the Interpol additionally in place, he was completely satisfied that from the time he was deployed to Tanzania in 2019, he has witnessed Zimbabwean wished offenders being arrested in Tanzania.

“Now we have witnessed some offenders who had escaped our programs in Zimbabwe and had sought sanctuary right here in Tanzania and so they had been extradited again residence by means of Interpol and we have now good cordial relations inside the area.

“On that observe we must always encourage the interplay by means of sporting, by means of collaborating in varied disciplines and it then brings in regards to the confidences between member states inside the forces of our respective capital,” he mentioned.

Nonetheless Ambassador Sanyatwe urged all of the Workforce Zimbabwe members to work onerous with a view to retain the trophy.

The SARPCCO video games first passed off in July 1996 when police chiefs of 12 Southern African Improvement Group (SADC) international locations acknowledged the necessity for the development of regional cooperation in policing the area. The video games have since grown into one of the celebrated occasions within the area.

The aims of the video games are to organise, regulate and administer sport for serving cops within the area; to foster partnership within the sub-region and enhance co-operation by means of sport; to construct belief and friendship among the many junior members.

In 2019, the ZRP gained the general trophy on the tenth version of those video games, which had been held in Angola, for the fifth time in a row.

Workforce Zimbabwe scooped 20 gold, 25 silver and 21 bronze medals to make it a complete of 66 medals.

Workforce Zimbabwe additionally acquired trophies for netball, athletics and darts.

SARPCCO is the first power in Southern Africa within the prevention and preventing of cross-border crimes.

Fashioned in 1995 in Zimbabwe, the organisation has firmly established itself as a benchmark for worldwide police cooperation.

The regional organisation is supported by the Sub-Regional Bureau of Interpol in Harare, which coordinates its actions and programmes.

Precedence crimes within the SADC area are terrorism, motorized vehicle thefts, medicine and counterfeit prescription drugs, financial and industrial crimes, firearms and explosives, trafficking in gold, diamonds and different treasured stones and metals, crimes in opposition to girls and kids, unlawful immigrants and stolen and misplaced journey paperwork, wildlife crime and endangered species and human trafficking.