Content_paragraphs:  As at 1 June, 4,904 internal security forces, including 2,254 police officers
  
  (596 women) and 2,650 gendarmes (351 women) had been deployed countrywide,
  
  except for Basse-Kotto Prefecture. During the reporting period, an additional
  
  75 gendarmes, including 28 women, were deployed to 23 locations across the country,
  
  bringing the total to 1,230 stationed outside Bangui. MINUSCA, together with other
  
  technical and financial partners, continued advocacy efforts with the nat ional
  
  authorities to review, assess and adjust police and gendarmerie performance within
  
  the security sector reform framework. The Mission, together with partners, continued
  
  to support capacity-building of the internal security forces to improve discipline and
  
  operational readiness of the gendarmerie, and to support police training academies,
  
  including through the ongoing training of 1,312 recruits since December.