Africa-Press – Angola. Desertion, indecent conduct and the misuse of military means, which take place both within the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and within the National Police and other defense and internal security bodies, were identified as the main military crimes that have been registered in the province of Zaire.
This statement was made by the deputy prosecutor of the Second Division of the Northern Military Region, Captain Eduardo Sachilombo, on the sidelines of the lecture on “Military Crimes”, held in the city of Mbanza Kongo, capital of Zaire province, as part of the 47th anniversary of the creation of the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC), to be celebrated on the 28th of this month of November.
Without providing statistical data, that prosecutor said that, despite the crimes mentioned, there is a reduction in crime rates within the staff, the result of a hard work of prevention that the Military Prosecutor’s Office has carried out in the region.
“We don’t have statistics here, but, in percentage, there was a reduction in the number of cases. carried out within the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), the National Police and internal security and order bodies”, he stressed.
“We have been verifying, with greater emphasis, the crime of desertion, followed by the crimes of deterioration of military assets and others linked to indecent conduct within the ranks of the troops, hence we consider this lecture of extreme importance, to elucidate them with matters linked to military crimes,” he added.
As for the causes, Captain Eduardo Sachilombo points to the context and social reality of the troops as the main factors that lead to the commission of such crimes.
“Today we frame the crime of desertion in a direct link to social life, as well as to the current context, in which the military already lives in free movement, unlike the previous time, so that free movement has led the military to be late in returning to the units and under the terms of the law has been shaping up in the crime of desertion”, he explained.
To reduce such crimes, the military prosecutor advanced that legal education activities have been carried out within the military family, with a view to preventing them.
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