{"id":414621,"date":"2023-03-04T07:40:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T04:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=414621"},"modified":"2023-03-04T07:40:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T04:40:32","slug":"new-atmis-police-commissioner-formally-assumes-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/new-atmis-police-commissioner-formally-assumes-office\/","title":{"rendered":"New ATMIS Police Commissioner formally assumes office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 Commissioner of Police (CP), Hillary Sao Kanu, has<br \/>\nformally assumed office as the Police Commissioner for the African Union Transition<br \/>\nMission in Somalia (ATMIS).<\/p>\n<p>CP. Hillary Sao Kanu, from Sierra Leone, arrived in Mogadishu on Thursday, to<br \/>\ncommence her duties. She replaces Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP),<br \/>\nAugustine Magnus Kailie, also from Sierra Leone, who concluded his tour of duty in<br \/>\nOctober last year.<br \/>\nShe was officially received on Friday at the ATMIS Police Headquarters in<br \/>\nMogadishu where she inspected a guard of honour mounted by ATMIS police<br \/>\npersonnel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy priorities are to build on what has already been achieved and sustain the<br \/>\nmomentum to ensure we achieve our goal of ensuring security and stability in<br \/>\nSomalia,\u201d said CP Kanu in an interview.<br \/>\nCP. Kanu, also emphasized that the ATMIS Police component will collaborate with<br \/>\ntheir counterparts, the Somali Police Force to achieve the mission\u2019s objectives and<br \/>\nbuild capacity through training, mentoring and advising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn collaboration with the Somali Police force, ATMIS police have maintained peace<br \/>\nand security in Somalia and that\u2019s what we will build on,\u201d she added.<br \/>\nATMIS Police, is one of the three components of the AU peace support operations in<br \/>\nSomalia, mandated to provide operational support and capacity building to the<br \/>\nSomali Police Force (SPF).<\/p>\n<p>CP. Kano brings to the mission a wealth of knowledge and experience spanning over<br \/>\n30 years in the police service, having joined the Sierra Leone Police Force in July<br \/>\n1992.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to her appointment as the ATMIS Police Commissioner, she was the Director of<br \/>\nSupport Services at Sierra Leone Police Headquarters. She previously served at<br \/>\nUNAMID, the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, Sudan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-414622\" src=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/new-atmis-police-commissioner-formally-assumes-office_52723156155_o-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/new-atmis-police-commissioner-formally-assumes-office_52723156155_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/new-atmis-police-commissioner-formally-assumes-office_52723156155_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/new-atmis-police-commissioner-formally-assumes-office_52723156155_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/new-atmis-police-commissioner-formally-assumes-office_52723156155_o-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, 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(ATMIS). CP. Hillary Sao Kanu, from Sierra Leone, arrived in Mogadishu on Thursday, to commence her duties. She replaces Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP), Augustine Magnus Kailie, also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":414629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-414621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414631,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414621\/revisions\/414631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}