Cameroonian Municipal Police: Roles, Organization, and Operational Framework in Decentralized Territorial Collectivities.
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Cameroonian municipal police, municipal police missions, Law N 2019/024, Decree N 2022/354, General Code of Decentralized Territorial Collectivities, CTD, municipal police organization, public health, environment protection, public assistance, risk prevention, hygiene, sanitation, municipal police officers, uniform, administrative control, judicial control, decentralization, local development, territorial integrity, Cameroon law, public order, law enforcement, municipal police authority, Mayor, sectoral administrations, public health issues, BOKO HARAM, separatists, Anglophone zones, North-West, South-West, municipal police control, municipal police sanctions, municipal police framework, municipal police composition, coordinating authorities, executive authorities, control authorities, legitimate violence, municipal bodies, jurisdictions, decentralization texts, local development policy, public agents, user acts, legal texts, Cameroon security context
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"Discover the framework governing Cameroon's municipal police, as outlined in Law N°2019/024 and Decree N°2022/354. Learn about their missions, organization, and responsibilities in maintaining public order, hygiene, sanitation, and environmental protection. Understand the role of municipal police in Cameroon's decentralization and local development policy."
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[...] Here, these municipal police agents are required to ensure the respect and application of environmental standards by multinational companies operating in the sector, which are subject to taxation. Also, for health reasons, the agents are required to ensure that populations respect the disposal of waste in waste bins, so that these waste materials do not degrade nature and become an obstacle to the flourishing of local populations. It is also the mission of the municipal police to assist populations in the sustainable development of sanitation projects, water supply and electrification of local areas. [...]
[...] Beyond that, the municipal police benefits from specific guidance in the exercise of its functions. B. The supervision of the missions of the Cameroonian municipal police The missions of the municipal police defined by Law N°2019/024 of December on the General Code of Decentralized Territorial Collectivities (CTD) and Decree N°2022/354 of August on the modalities of exercise of municipal police determine the missions of the municipal police in Cameroon, showing that it is not a substitute police and cannot replace the forces of law and order or even equal them. [...]
[...] The organizational arrangement of the Cameroonian municipal police Following the provisions contained in Decree No. 2022/354 of August it consists of a very well-structured activityA) and well arrangedB). A. The composition of the Cameroonian municipal police The 2022 constituent specifies that the municipal police is structured from the coordinating and executive authorities on the one hand,1) and the control authorities on the other hand,2). 1. The component of the coordinating and executive authorities In Title X of the Constitution of January the Cameroonian constituent distinguishes two types of Decentralized Territorial Collectivities, namely: municipalities and regions. [...]
[...] Thus, in accordance with Law N°2019/024 of December establishing the General Code of Decentralized Territorial Collectivities (CTD) and the provisions contained in Decree N°2022/354 of August on the procedures for the exercise of municipal police, control authorities are generally composed of sectoral administrations for public health issues, representatives of the State, the Minister responsible for CTD. Furthermore, municipal police is composed of public agents whose vocation is to ensure the application of the principles of local development and the compliance of user acts without compromising the legal texts that govern them. However, the Cameroonian constituent, amends the municipal police by creating it and giving it the means of its administrative policy. [...]
[...] This being the case, the Cameroonian having inherited the French model of decentralization, administers its Decentralized Territorial Collectivities on the model of the Decentralized Unitary State in accordance with Article 1.he of the Constitution of 18 January 1996. Decentralization is a form of state organization, the result of which is the transfer of competences from the central level to the local level. This transfer is dependent on a possible rapprochement between the entities of the central administration and those of the decentralized administration, as Georges BURDEAU already pointed out, which can seem vain at times, but is very commendable. [...]
