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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Liberia-#Ebola kills five police officers

Deputy Police Director for Administration, William K. Mulbah, has told a US medical team visiting Liberia that the deadly Ebola virus has killed five officers of the Liberia National Police, LNP. A police barrack on Camp Johnson Road, Monrovia was early this quarantined after an affiliate of one of the officers there was allegedly infected and subsequently spread the disease in the barrack.
Dozens of officers in the barrack were being observed after it was discovered that a nurse, who had been visiting there died of Ebola. Meanwhile, Mr. Mulbah said the LNP is grateful for the numerous support it continues to get from the Americans, directed towards rebuilding the capacity of the police, saying, with such knowledge the LNP was prepared to fight against Ebola.

The police announced yesterday that a team from the Louisiana State University arrived in Liberia to conduct a three-day intensive anti-Ebola seminar for over five hundred officers. Mr. Mulbah had cautioned officers attending the training to take it seriously. Officers from the patrol, Police Support Unit and the Emergency Response Unit are partaking in the training.

The seminar, which is ongoing at the National Police Headquarters on Capitol Hill, is made possible through the US State Department to train first respondents of the police to the Ebola crisis, a statement said on Monday. The LNP says the US team is headed by Jason Krause, Director of Operations at the National Center or Biomedical Research and Training based in the State of Louisiana, America.