Charles Bisengimana Rukira is the former Commissioner General of the

Congolese National Police The Congolese National Police (french: Police nationale congolaise, PNC) is the Law enforcement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, national police force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The national police consists of 110,000–150,00 ...

of the

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. Born on August 21, 1964 in

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province

Democratic Republic of Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

DRC. Charles Bisengimana joined the army at the age of 20.

History

Very early, at the age of 20, in January 1985 he decided to start his military career where he obtained the Degree in Military Sciences at the Officer Training School, 18th Promotion, immediately followed by a training of Police in 9th promotion school under former national gendarmerie. In 1989 he graduated in Law, Criminology, Military Sciences and Academician of Police graduated from the Arab Republic of Egypt. Thereafter, he worked as intelligence officer of the Civil Guard in Kinshasa until 1997 where he joined the rebel Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo in Goma, remained there until 2003, returned to Kinshasa with grade General after the peace agreement and the inter-Congolese dialogue, which ended the

Second Congo War The Second Congo War,, group=lower-alpha also known as the Great War of Africa or the Great African War and sometimes referred to as the African World War, began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 1998, little more than a year a ...

Interim General Commissioner of the Congolese police

Following the assassination of Floribert "Flori" Chebeya, the head of the Congolese police,

John Numbi John Numbi (born 1962) was a Congolese security officer and retainer of Joseph Kabila, who rose to the rank of General. Until January 2010, he was the Inspector General of the Congolese National Police. In 2018 he was appointed as the Inspector Ge ...

was suspended and his deputy, General Charles Bisengimana was appointed the interim head of

in 2010.

General commissioner of the Congolese police

General Charles Bisengimana was appointed Commissioner-General of the Congolese police on December 28, 2013. On 17 July 2017, the Commissioner General of the Congolese National Police, Charles Bisengimana, was replaced by General Dieudonné Amuli Bahigwa. The latter was previously the deputy chief of staff for the operations of the armed forces of the DRC, according to Radio Okapi's website.

References

1. https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/drc1114fr_ForUpload_1_2.pdf

External links

RDC: le nouveau commissaire général de la police a pris ses fonctions

La RDC aux commandes du comité des chefs de la police d’Afrique centrale

Nous entrons dans la phase d’une police proche de la population

Kinshasa: les chefs de police d’Afrique centrale veulent lutter contre la criminalité transfrontalière

Le commissaire général Charles Bisengimana examine la situation des unités de la PNC au Kasaï-Occidental
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