According to the Deputy Police Commissioner of the Province of Haut-Katanga, General Louis-Segond Karawa, the operation will last for a month.
To begin with, all police personnel will be identified and confined to their area of deployment.
The police will then strengthen its intelligence service and create a unit that will specifically deal with identifying and tracking criminal elements, this will be done with the assistant of civil society and community leaders.
Other security measures to be taken will include increasing checkpoints and arresting drivers without registered number plates.
The Deputy Police Commissioner also told reporters, they have increased interactions with communities, in an effort to establish trust between the security forces and the population.
He also called on the regional and local police Commanders to be on high alert with what is evolving in their area and exercise their responsibility with patriotism.
Insecurity has become the biggest challenge in the Province of Haut-Katanga; almost everyday the population are victimised by armed men, who will attack residential properties in the early hours of the mornings and get away with valuables. Several people have lost their lives during this encounter.
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