Twelve police officers will leave our shores in the next few weeks headed for Dafur on a Peace keeping mission under the United Nations banner.

The 12 officers will replace those who have been based in Dafur for the past year and they include a few senior officers.

They will march into the Police Academy next week to prepare to be deployed to the war torn region of Sudan.

This is part of the ongoing UN peace keeping mission.

Meanwhile, the government is unaware on whether the United Nations has decided to stop using Fiji soldiers in all future UN peacekeeping missions.

Although the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd announced earlier this week that the UN has decided that Fiji will not be included in all future peacekeeping missions, Permanent Secretary for Information Lt Colonel Neumi Leweni said he does not know where the information has come from.