On 4 July 2026, in Bangui, Lieutenant David Jesús Rosales stood at attention as the Director General of the Central African National Gendarmerie, Général de Corps d’Armée Landry Ulrich Depot, pinned on him the Medal of Officer of the National Order of Central African Recognition, awarded by presidential decree, on behalf of the Minister of Interior and Public Security.
Officer Rosales, a law degree and fluent in French, joined the Guardia Civil in 2009. In February 2024, with fifteen years of service behind him, he arrived in Bangui as Strategic Advisor on Training with EUAM RCA mission deployed through EUROGENDFOR.
His job was not to train Central African gendarmes. It was to help them build a system that trains them. That meant two and a half years working side by side with the Gendarmerie and the Kolongo Gendarmerie School analysing what the institution really needed; designing curricula, updating old ones, and above all strengthening the Central African trainers themselves, so the system could stand on its own.
Today, courses exist in the Central African Republic that did not exist before he arrived. The Director of Investigation course and the Junior Officers’ course, both built from a blank page. Alongside them, training for Judicial Police Officers, the Staff Diploma, and Training of Trainers.
