February 10, 2024
Police sources in the city of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, western Sudan, revealed the withdrawal of dozens of police officers who responded to a call for the Rapid Support Forces to return to work after they took control of the city of Nyala due to the interference of members of the Rapid Support Forces in the police’s specializations, in addition to the lack of work aids, the non-payment of salaries for long periods, and the threat of dismissal. By the Sudanese Police Department to work and cooperate with the Rapid Support Forces.
The source mentioned that more than 70 policemen dropped out from the localities of Belil and Nyala after joining work in the state and added: “Salaries are one of the main reasons, followed by the failure of some Rapid Support members to recognize the hierarchy of military ranks and interference in work, which causes problems between police and Rapid Support members.”
Police Sergeant A, M, S told Darfur 24 that his return to service was due to his desire to serve society and that he joined to work in order to spread security among citizens and enforce the law. However, one of the Rapid Support personnel intervened during one of his workdays by forcefully releasing a defendant from the department without personal or financial bail, forcing him to be absent the next day, leave work, and sit at home.
One of the police officers (Y, A, M) explained to Darfur 24 the suffering of men with members of the Rapid Support Forces, such as opening and executing reports, due to the lack of means of movement and notebooks for opening reports, and the absence of investigation and investigation police personnel in arresting and bringing the accused.
According to a source in the Supply Department of the South Darfur Police, who revealed that his name was withheld, the number of police personnel on duty before April 15, 2023 was about 3,000 police in the state’s localities (21), and the police in the city of Nyala, the state capital alone, have more than 8 rescue patrols and 43 administrative cars in the various police units and a laboratory. Forensic evidence in western Sudan. All of this property was looted and all police departments and departments were vandalized, including the Family and Child Protection Department, whose headquarters was built with funding from UNICEF. He added that there are well-known police cars that work in transporting goods in some localities without the de facto authorities intervening to return them. To the police, according to what he said.
The source explained that more than 700 individuals have joined the North Darfur police after the police headquarters’ directives to join individuals from states under the control of the Rapid Support to the nearest state under the control of the Sudanese army.
On October 26, shortly after his forces took control of Nyala, Lieutenant General Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo, the second commander of the Rapid Support Forces, issued a decision appointing Police Major General Bashir Adam Issa as Director of the South Darfur Police, but he has not begun his work until today without disclosing the reasons.
The Commander of the Rapid Support Forces, South Darfur Sector, Colonel Saleh Al-Futi, expressed his commitment in a small ceremony in front of the Central Nyala Police Department last November to provide the police’s needs to resume their work and facilitate the task of the policemen, after reviewing a column that included more than 400 police officers in the state.