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Paragraph 4: Of the Caisse Nationale de Péréquation
[National Fund for Equalization]
Article 181
A Caisse Nationale de Péréquation is instituted. It is endowed with juridical
personality.
The Caisse Nationale de Péréquation has the mission to finance the projects and
programs of public investment, with a view to assure nationally solidarity and to
correct the unequal development between the Provinces and between the other
decentralized territorial entities.
It disposes of a budget provided by the Public Treasury at the rate of ten percent of
all the receipts of national character due to the State each year.
It is placed under the oversight of the Government.
An organic law establishes its organization and its functioning.
Section 6: Of the National Police and of the Armed Forces
Paragraph 1: Of the National Police
Article 182
The National Police is responsible for the public security, the security of persons and
of their assets, of the maintenance and of the re-establishment of the public order as
well as the close protection of the high authorities.
Article 183
The National Police is apolitical. It is at the service of the Congolese Nation. No one
may direct it for his own purposes.
The National Police exercises its acts on the whole of the national territory with
respect for this Constitution and the laws of the Republic.
Article 184
The National Police is subject to the local civil authority and is placed under the
responsibility of the Minister who has interior affairs among his attributions.
Article 185
The personnel [effectifs], at all levels, [and] the functions of command at all times and
in all circumstances, must take account of objective criteria linked to both physical
aptitude, to sufficient instruction and to a proven morality as well as to an equitable
representation of the Provinces.
Article 186
An organic law establishes the organization and the functioning of the National
Police.
Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011)
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