More police officers are committing suicide in the country. In the last two years alone, according to the Commander General of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique, Bernardino Rafael, seventeen police officers have taken their own lives.

Speaking at a graduation ceremony in the administrative post of Pundanhar, in the district of Palma, Cabo Delgado, Bernardino Rafael was quoted by RM as saying that suicide is not the best solution to problems of any kind.

"I'm worried about some of my colleagues' decisions, because in the last few months of this year and last year, almost seventeen colleagues have taken decisions that the institution doesn't like, they've committed suicide. It's not the right decision, let death come to the person who invented it," he said.

As a way of reversing this scenario, the General Commander of the PRM revealed that the corporation is training psychologists to deal with the wave of suicides among its members.