Toward the end of the 1990s, the leadership saw the old model of policing as outdated, opting for the approach of involving the community in policing as a more sustainable way to ensure security. These ideas gained much traction in post-genocide Rwanda where the new government was determined to police society differently from the way it had been done before, whereby both society and the police were detached from each other. It was felt at the highest levels of government that a professional police force needed the confidence of the people in whose name it carried out its duties. Furthermore, the leadership saw the need for a police force that worked for the people in ways that would encourage people to work for it and to see it as their police. In that way, they would be incentivised to facilitate its work, such as providing it with the information it needed to perform its functions effectively. This would contrast sharply with the pre-genocide policing model in which, according to an officer who had served in the pre-war gendarmerie, “there was too much of a military element”. However, the military element was one thing; that the Force remained too small to cover the whole country was quite another. In December 1994, one month after passing out the first batch of gendarmes, the then vice president, Paul Kagame, initiated the creation of the communal police. newtimes.co.rw/news/index.php?i=15832&a=79695
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