Consultations on community-level policing structures in Jonglei and Upper Nile States, Southern Sudan

Saferworld and the Government of Southern Sudan Bureau for Community Security and Small Arms Control (CSSAC) carried out community level consultations in nine counties in the states of Jonglei and Upper Nile, Southern Sudan, on local policing structures. The consultation focused on counties which have experienced both internal and cross-state border violence and are in a continuing state of overwhelming insecurity. The aim of the consultation process was to ascertain local attitudes towards community-level policing structures as a means to provide community security, particularly in a context of ongoing civilian disarmament.