Content_paragraphs: As at 1 October, 6,199 internal security forces, including 2,902 police officers 
  
  (779 women) and 3,297 gendarmes (515 women), were deployed across the country, 
  
  except in Basse-Kotto owing to access challenges. MINUSCA and the United Nations 
  
  Development Programme (UNDP) supported the training of 203 police and 
  
  gendarmes (42 women) on community policing and 72 police and gendarmes (17 
  
  women) as certified judicial police officers. On 25 and 31 August, 657 police (187 
  
  women) and 651 gendarmes (165 women) graduated from their respective academies.