Content_paragraphs:  As at 1 February, 4,909 internal security forces, including 2,258 police officers 
  
  (597 women) and 2,651 gendarmes (351 women), were deployed to all prefectures 
  
  except Basse-Kotto, MINUSCA and UNDP trained 689 police officers and 
  
  gendarmes, including 197 women, on election security. MINUSCA observed cases of 
  
  abandonment of position by internal security forces in Mbomou, Nana-Gribizi, and 
  
  Ouaka Prefectures. In November, 1,198 recruits, including 317 women, entered police 
  
  and gendarmerie training schools.