Africa’s best police service is that
of Botswana despite being ranked 47th best in the world. This is according to
the World Internal Security and Police Index (WISPI) released by two bodies,
the International Police Science Association (IPSA) and the Institute for
Economics and Peace (IEP).
The index ranked the Rwandan police
as Africa’s second best (with global position of 50th) followed by Algeria
(58th), Senegal (68th) and Tunisia (72nd) in that order. Completing the top 10
for Africa were, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Ghana, South Africa and Mali
respectively.
“WISPI measures the ability of the
police and other security providers to address internal security issues in 127
countries, across four domains, using sixteen indicators,” authors of the
report stated. The four domains are, capacity, process, legitimacy and
outcomes.
Despite the failure of Africa to
break into the top forty, the continent was very prominent in the lower
rankings. Six African countries were in the bottom 10. Cameroon and Mozambique
in the 120th and 122nd spots.
Uganda, Kenya, the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC) and Nigeria made it an African quartet at the bottom –
occupying 124th to 127 slots respectively.
At the top of the global rankings,
Europe dominated with eight countries. Except first place Singapore and
Australia in sixth spot, all the other countries were in Europe – Finland,
Denmark, Austria, Germany (2nd – 5th), Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and
Switzerland (7th – 10th).
About the World Internal Security
and Police Index (WISPI)
The aim of the WISPI is to, firstly,
measure security provider performance across the four domains of internal
security: capacity, process, legitimacy and outcomes.
Secondly, to see how these domains
relate to each other and finally to track trends in these domains over time,
and to inform the work of security providing agencies, researchers, and
practitioners in the field of peace and conflict studies, criminology, and
police studies
Source Africanews.com
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