REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON PEACE – WORK– FATHERLAND
ORDER No. 000003 /A/MINDDEVEL OF 08 JAN 2024 to define conditions for the establishment and functioning of a municipal police service in an urban centre.
THE MINISTER OF DECENTRALIZATION AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT,
Mindful of the Constitution; Mindful of Law No. 2019/24 of 24 December 2019 to institute the General Code of Regional and Local Authorities; Mindful of Decree No. 2011/408 of 9 December 2011 to organize the Government, as amended and supplemented by Decree No. 2018/190 of 2 March 2018; Mindful of Decree No. 2018/191 of 2 March 2018 to reorganize the Government; Mindful of Decree No. 2018/449 of 1 August 2018 to organize the Ministry of Decentralization and Local Development; Mindful of Decree No. 2022/354 of 9 August 2022 to lay down conditions for carrying out municipal policing,
HEREBY ORDERS AS FOLLOWS
CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 1: This order defines the conditions for the establishment and functioning of a municipal police service in an urban centre.
CHAPTER II ESTABLISHMENT OF A MUNICIPAL POLICE SERVICE IN AN URBAN CENTRE
ARTICLE 2: In urban centres raised to city councils, the municipal police service shall be managed either by employees of the city council or by those of subdivisional councils.
ARTICLE 3: (1) The establishment of a municipal police service in an urban centre shall be authorized by a deliberation of a council board or that of a city council board, as the case may be.
(2) Besides, the specific conditions defined in this order, the deliberation referred to in paragraph 1 above shall set out the duties, resources and rules of functioning of the service.
(3) The deliberation shall be subject to the prior approval of the Minister in charge of regional and local authorities.
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SECTION ONE PRIOR CONSULTATION
ARTICLE 4: (1) Municipal police services of the city council and of subdivisional councils shall be established after prior consultation between the executive organs of the aforementioned local authorities sanctioned by an agreement.
(2) The consultation shall be initiated by the city mayor, under the authority of the representative of the State, within 30 (thirty) days of the signing of this order.
(3) In the event where the city mayor fails to act by the end of the period referred to in paragraph 2 above, the representative of the State shall, at the request of a mayor of a subdivisional council, convene the said consultation within 15 (fifteen) days of the said mayor's request.
ARTICLE 5: (1) During the consultation, the city mayor and the mayors of subdivisional councils shall agree on the tasks assigned to each municipal police service.
(2) The definition of the tasks of a city council's municipal police service shall take into account the exclusive powers conferred on it by Section 241 of the aforementioned Law No. 2019/24 of 24 December 2019.