Issouf Ouédraogo, Governor of the Northern Region, on Monday, May 13, 2024, officially installed Chief Police Commissioner Oumar Soulama as Regional Director of the Northern National Police (DRPN), we observed.The solemn handover ceremony took place at the DRPN-North compound in Ouahigouya and was marked by the presence of the region's bodies, the hierarchy of the national police, parents, friends and administered by the town of Ouahigouya. After one year, four months and twenty days spent at the head of the Northern police, Sébastien Sawadogo, Divisional Police Commissioner, passed the torch to Principal Police Commissioner Oumar Soulama.The Governor of the Northern region, before proceeding with the installation ceremony, invited the new DRPN to collaborate fully with all members and collaborators of the police network in view of the specific security context facing the Northern region. North.The first manager of the Region as well as the staff representative of the DRPN North took advantage of this m oment of farewell, congratulating Commissioner Sawadogo for having worked effectively in ensuring permanent protection of the populations and their property over the area. of the regional territory, by participating with other defense and security forces and volunteers for the defense of the homeland (VDP) in the fight against terrorism, etc.After receiving the attributes which make him the new boss of the police of the four provinces of the region (Loroum, Yatenga, Zondoma, Passoré) the DRPN Oumar Soulama promised to immediately get to work.'The major challenge remains the resounding victory against the terrorist hydra. This de facto requires the substantial equipment of our troops on the ground, the strengthening of our operational capacities, professional cohesion and above all the revival of the patriotic fiber in the image of our oath' he clarified.Commissioner Soulama also stressed in his speech that the emergence of new pernicious forms of violent extremism and radicalization require the reorient ation of the fight on the basis of new paradigms and the formulation of new strategies and tactics and therefore invited his collaborators to task.Source: Burkina Information Agency