The Sierra Leone Police have expressed its readiness to provide adequate security during and after the general elections scheduled to hold on Wednesday.
The Head of Media and Public Relations Officer, Sierra Leone Police, Ibrahim Samura, a superintendent, who gave the assurance on Tuesday in Freetown, said more than 13,000 police personnel had been deployed for the exercise.
According to him, the aim is to ensure peaceful conduct of the elections.
“As I speak to you, we have started deploying our personnel to the various polling centres across the country. So the deployment is in progress.
“We have activated a toll free line, which is 112, which we receive something like 40 calls at a go and we will be in better position to respond to those 40 calls also at a go.
“We have also ensured that adequate training is provided for our personnel. They have been adequately capacitated.
“At the senior cadre, our personnel have undergone strategic command training, that is, gold command training to be specific.
“Strategic silver command training, strategic bronze command training and generally, they have undergone election specific security training.
“This means that we are now in a better position to provide adequate security for the people of this country before, during and after the elections,’’ Mr. Samura said.
He said that the police expected the election to be peaceful as it had conducted threats analysis and threat estimate ahead of the elections.