Content_paragraphs:  The number of police officers and gendarmes deployed outside Bangui reached
  
  1,086, including 58 women, as at 1 February, compared with 1,075 on 15 October.
  
  The gendarmes and police officers recruited in 2018 began to be deployed in Birao,
  
  Bossangoa, Bozoum and Obo. The second recruitment exercise, lasting from 1 July
  
  to 12 December 2019, resulted in 1,000 candidates, including 258 women, being
  
  selected following vetting, with the support of MINUSCA.