"Residents' Protection Insights: What is Jonglei State's Law enforcements?"

Overview of Jonglei State Police:

There is an existing and established Police in Jonglei State---South Sudan, although it is new country comparing to the rest of nations in the World. They work tirelessly and relently with local people in the County level to file and documented incidents of livestock rustling and welfare of local people in County areas of Bor South County, Twic East County and Duk County. 

And there is also version of protection group known as “Tite Weeng’ in Dinka language and their task is to protect their livestock from the lesson learned during the 1991-1993 Nuer ethnic insurgency to which they took away and plundered livestock, literally means in Dinka Language, ‘ a ci weng nyai’. It was a great havoc especially to local people of Twic East County, Bor South County, and Duk County since young adult had left for military trainings with South Sudan SPLM army for war with Old Sudan, and only youth, elderly people and women were left behind to herd livestock they had raised for family support and their livings.

Jonglei State Police and Sheriffs in South Sudan:

As obvious, Jonglei State police and sheriffs’ tasks in the South Sudan was to report, and recording potential incidents, especially problems pertaining cattle rustlings. It was so rampant: children abductions, and women kidnapping were so frequent with high rate in the Jonglei State, especially in the Counties: Twic East County, Duk County and Bor South County---side of Ayidi village---residential place of Abii people and Paleek people of Bor South County. 

During my trip for Bor South County, Mach Mel from Bor South County, Manyok from Duk County and me from Twic East County, ‘s observance and experiences in the areas, right before I flew for Kenya in 1999, was so awful and local people of Paleek in ‘Waar ee ameel’ village had experienced this kind of livestock rustling, children abduction and women kidnapping. People of Paleek surrounding ‘waar ee meel’ village kept their livestock much closer to the people during the rainy seasons in the various cattle camps like ‘mai e thok’ camp and in other seasons, they take their cattle much adjucent to the riparian of Nile basins, where enemy, especially the Murle people of Pibor County, Jonglei State---South Sudan, had difficulties to swim crossing livestock they had rustled and river Nile was a barrier to which most people who keep and herd livestock in the Bor South County, preferred to keep their livestock much along the river Nile during the dry season and summer seasons. 

We spent almost a year in ‘Waar ee Meel’ village of Paleek people helping family and relative of Mach Mel. It was a pleasant experiences and we left ‘waar ee meel’ village right after sorghums and other plants were ripen and had yielded-----keeping flock of birds known as ‘lual’ in Dinka language aways eating sorghums was a risky tasks and people built a sitting high rise known as ‘piom’, probably in 1998 for Panyagor town, Twic East County, South Sudan. I had never been there and this trip with Mach Mel and Manyok from Duk County, was for the first time during the ‘re-construction phase’ when people of Bor South County, come back from their hiding places. We had visited many areas in Bor South County: Pa-Nueer town of Abii people and in the Malek areas of ‘Thany’ people literally means people who live in the basin of river Nile basin of Malek solely for fishery and planting corns along the river Nile basin for consumption without livestock herding and possessions. It is basically meant people without cattle, however decided to stay there along the river Nile basin for fishery and growing corns, beans, sugarcanes, cassavas, and other various crops that grow well in the swampy area. They are used to that ‘lifestyles and ways of life’, with which they do not bother themselves herding cattles and they are pre-dominantly of Bor South County and they tended to refer themselves as ‘Thany’ people of Malek area few miles away from the Bor Town and ‘waar ee meel’ village…..it is a whole day walk since ‘dawn and Sun set’ trip from ‘waar ee meel’ village of Paleek people of Bor South County, Jonglei State---South Sudan. 

Reinforcement of certain ‘penal code’ law established after and during the referendum since 2005 CPA was signed---interim government of South Sudan before they seceded from the Old Sudan, leaving dissolving the Government of National Unity(GONU), to which kept South Sudan and Old Sudan together for those number of six years term for secession in 2011. Jonglei State Police and sheriffs were reinforcing those ‘penal code’ laws as well as in the other States in the South Sudan until they were modified after 2011 referendum for separate two sovereign nations. Sequences was like: Government of South Sudan (GOSS)----Government of National Unity(GONU)-----Old Sudan government. Basically both countries were operating and establishing their police and sheriffs with tasks for reinforcement of their respective ‘penal code’ laws during the six years terms since 2005 as stipulated in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) protocol agreement. 

During those six years term interim government of South Sudan, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMIS) swang byfor peace-building and keeping in conjunction with Jonglei State Police and Sheriffs in various Counties of Jonglei State as well as in other Counties in South Sudan.  Twic East County commissioner Dau Akoi Jurkuch acknowledged and testified that UNMIS peace-building forces come frequently for safeguard of CPA protocols as well as for the welfare of local people in various Counties in South Sudan during those six years terms for referendum since 2005 to 2011. I also ran into UNMIS peace-building forces in the Bor Town’s airport when I was about to flight for Panyagor town, Twic East County, Jonglei State---South Sudan during my recent trip for South Sudan. I was so impressed. 

Jonglei State Police with town sheriffs run a ‘safety clearance’by taking a walk for few miles around to suspicious places per reports from the Counties’ community that were affected to which this task is referred to as ‘maruur’ in Dinka language.Seeing Police and Sheriffs walking for miles and miles in Twic East County since some areas of Twic East County, does not have a good physical infrastructure, where Police and Sheriffs could take a drive instead of walks.