highly trained officers in the area of intelligence and investigations and they have the requisite technical and scientific policing equipment to carry out their assigned duties. 44. Apart from the BAC whose mission is to ensure surveillance of urban environments in order to make interventions in cases where people are caught in the act, based on their own initiatives or through calls by victims, the other units are more importantly responsible for serious and complex investigations. 45. In order to better address the security threats currently raging in the sub-region, the Government established a National Police Reaction Force (GIPN) in 2015, just like the Special Gendarmerie Reaction Group (USIG) to strengthen the existing mechanism. These are highly trained special forces equipped to deal with extremely serious situations. 46. However, it must be pointed out that this sector is still confronted with difficulties since at the end of every year, the population, especially people living in the capital, Hold-ups Arme Housebreaki d Murder/ ng/ Robbe Mob Justice Burglary ry Trafficking Discovery of /Drug corpses Seizures Fire Outbrea ks are confronted with insecurity in spite of measures taken by the relevant authorities. To address these issues, a working session was convened in December, 2015 at the Prime Minister’s Office, which session brought together all the officials of the security agencies. 47. All these new measures have made it possible to record a better security coverage of the country, which explains the increase in the number of findings established (all categories inclusive) from 12 988 in 2013 to 14 429 in 2014, since a greater number of findings have not been reported in view of the distance of the security services from certain localities. Table 1: Comparison of violent crimes between the first semesters of 2014 and 2015 23