constituteproject.org PDF generated: 18 Apr 2016, 15:22 Paragraph 4: Of the Caisse Nationale de Péréquation [National Fund for Equalization] Article 181 A Caisse Nationale de Péréquation is instituted. It is endowed with juridical personality. The Caisse Nationale de Péréquation has the mission to finance the projects and programs of public investment, with a view to assure nationally solidarity and to correct the unequal development between the Provinces and between the other decentralized territorial entities. It disposes of a budget provided by the Public Treasury at the rate of ten percent of all the receipts of national character due to the State each year. It is placed under the oversight of the Government. An organic law establishes its organization and its functioning. Section 6: Of the National Police and of the Armed Forces Paragraph 1: Of the National Police Article 182 The National Police is responsible for the public security, the security of persons and of their assets, of the maintenance and of the re-establishment of the public order as well as the close protection of the high authorities. Article 183 The National Police is apolitical. It is at the service of the Congolese Nation. No one may direct it for his own purposes. The National Police exercises its acts on the whole of the national territory with respect for this Constitution and the laws of the Republic. Article 184 The National Police is subject to the local civil authority and is placed under the responsibility of the Minister who has interior affairs among his attributions. Article 185 The personnel [effectifs], at all levels, [and] the functions of command at all times and in all circumstances, must take account of objective criteria linked to both physical aptitude, to sufficient instruction and to a proven morality as well as to an equitable representation of the Provinces. Article 186 An organic law establishes the organization and the functioning of the National Police. Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011) Page 49