25 police officers deployed to Lilongwe City Council for law enforcement

At least 25 police officers from Malawi Police Service (MPS) have been deployed to Lilongwe City Council (LCC) on secondment to support the city council in the enforcement of laws within its area of jurisdiction.

Speaking during the orientation of newly deployed police officers in Lilongwe, Mayor for Lilongwe City, Councilor Richard Banda hailed the deployment of police officers to saying the Council had a big challenge in terms of enforcement

He said during the exercise of removing the vendors, they were failing to comply and the council was supposed to hire the police officers to help them which was expensive.

Banda said now that they have their own police officers, sanity will be back to normal in the city because whatever exercise we will need to do in the city it will be easy for them

He added that, the police officers will also help to boost revenue collection for the city council saying that previously the city council has been failing to collect enough revenue from Lilongwe city residents due to lack of strong enforcement team.

In his remarks, Assistant Commissioner of Police who is also Director of Community Policing and Police Units, Alex Simenti commended the deployment of police officers to LCC.