A UN agency has handed over four classrooms to the South Sudan Police Service at Digala village of Rajaf Payam, south-west of Juba.

The facilities cost 340,000 pounds.

They will be used for institutional capacity building in post-conflict environment and help the police combat crimes.

The construction of the classrooms was at the request of the police unit of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.

The Representative of UNHCR in South Sudan, Cosmas Chanda, says the police are the first people who are in contact with the refugees and the asylum seekers on a daily basis.

“So, it is very important that the police are very knowledgeable regarding the obligations and the commitment of the Government and the people of South Sudan on the treatment and reception of those persons who are running away from the situation that are unbearable,” said Mr Chanda.

South Sudan is currently hosting refugees from neighboring countries, particularly Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.

He said they are grateful that the government and the people of South Sudan have welcomed the refugees.

“We are more than grateful that upon your independence the first thing that you did was to all refugees to come in the territory of South Sudan. “

The Deputy Inspector General of Police Lieutenant-General Andrew Koul Nyoun said there is a need to teach the ‘police humanitarian law as well as in human rights’.

South Sudan is a home to over two hundred thousand Sudanese refugees who fled the conflict in Blue Nile and South Kordofan.

There are also refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.