REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON PEACE – WORK – FATHERLAND
ORDER No. 000004 /A/MINDDEVEL OF 08 JAN 2024 to define conditions for sanctioning a municipal police service or officer.
THE MINISTER OF DECENTRALIZATION AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT,
Mindful of the Constitution; Mindful of Law No. 92-7 of 14 August 1992 to institute the Labour Code; Mindful of Law No. 2019/24 of 24 December 2019 to institute the General Code of Regional and Local Authorities; Mindful of Decree No. 78/484 of 9 November 1978 to lay down common provisions applicable to State employees governed by the Labour Code, as amended and supplemented by Decree No. 82/100 of 3 March 1982; 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, Mindful of Order No. /A/MINDDEVEL of relating to the code of ethics for officers in charge of municipal policing,
HEREBY ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 1: This order, issued pursuant to Article 31 of Decree No. 2022/354 of 9 August 2022 mentioned above, defines the conditions for sanctioning a municipal police service or officer in charge of municipal policing.
CHAPTER II CONDITIONS FOR SANCTIONING A MUNICIPAL POLICE SERVICE
ARTICLE 2: (1) The service in charge of municipal policing may be suspended for any of the following duly established acts:
a) widespread abuse committed by officers without any measures taken by the council chief executive to put an end thereto, in particular; - repeated use of force on the population; - opposing the operations of the forces of law and order; - confrontation with or without violence against the forces of law and order;
b) failure to comply with the rules of functioning of the service, in particular; - failure to comply with the tasks devolving upon each municipal police service; - implementation of tasks not provided for in the deliberation to establish a municipal police service; - intervention by the municipal police force outside the territorial jurisdiction of the council to which it is attached; - recurrent discharge of municipal policing tasks outside the hours set out by the regulations in force, save for activities permitted outside these hours; - use, within the municipal police service, for the discharge of its tasks of: o individuals who do not form part of the council, city council or subdivisional council staff; o council employees who do not fulfil the conditions defined by the regulations in force to become a municipal police officer; - intervention in violation of the non-political, secular, non-trade union and non-partisan nature of the local authority; - recurrent use of a uniform that does not comply with the regulations in force;