Ivory Coast has nearly 20,000 police officers in 2021

The Ivorian Minister of Communication and Media, also spokesperson for the Ivorian government, Sidi Tiémoko Touré announced on Wednesday the creation of the Korhogo police school (North), the second in the country after that of Abidjan, revealing that Ivory Coast has 19,993 police officers in 2021, a workforce below the required standard.

Mr. Touré said, there was a study on the implementation of a planning law for internal security which recommends a ratio of one police officer per 400 inhabitants, that is to say a workforce in the long term according to the programming law of 26 701 agents throughout the national territory. And in 2016, during the evaluation of this programming law, there were 16,853 active police officers. And in 2021, 19,993 agents, ie below the required manpower.

He was speaking at the end of a Council of Ministers chaired at the presidential palace in Abidjan by the Ivorian head of state Alassane Ouattara.

Previously, the Ivorian government spokesperson explained that the Korhogo police school, created almost 50 years after that of Abidjan, will not only strengthen the reception and training capacities of police personnel. national, but also to increase the number of police officers in quantity and quality in accordance with international standards.