Latest news from EU peacekeeping missions (CSDP) – mid-March 2014
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Camp Butmir - Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). New personnel manager for ALTHEA EUFOR
The new head of staff for the European peacekeeping operation in Bosnia-Herzegovina (ALTHEA Eufor) has taken up his post. During the ceremony at Camp Butmir (Sarajevo), Brigadier General András Szücs (Hungarian) took over from his compatriot Brigadier General József Szpisják. He officiates under the orders of Major General Dieter Heidecker.
Herat (Afghanistan). Conference on the entry of women into the police
The provincial police headquarters of Herat was the scene, on February 25, of a Conference on women police officers from the western regions (Herat, Badghis and Farah): “Support for women in the police, going beyond challenges : Overcome Challenges and speed up recruitment”. Of the 150 participants, there were 40 women. Among the guests to speak, the Afghan Deputy Minister for Administration at the Ministry of Interior, General Ikramuddin Yawar, and the Head of the Office of Gender Equality and Human Rights of the Ministry of Interior, Brigadier General Hekmat Shahi Rasooli. For the European mission EUPOL Afghanistan, it was Jean-Lucas Scimone, the head of the Herat office who spoke. He recalled the importance of improving the working conditions and protection of female police officers within the ANP (Afghan National Police) to enable them to work as professionals.
Port Victoria (Seychelles). coast guard training
During its visit to Seychelles this Thursday, March 6, the frigate FS Siroco of the European anti-piracy mission Eunavfor Somalia, welcomed twenty students from the Seychelles Coast Guard for training. An introduction to the use of electronic navigation equipment (GPS, radar, gyro-compass) was thus able to be carried out by the personnel of the EUCAP Nestor civilian mission, within the framework of the "Basic training program" of the coast guards, which is spread over 27 weeks. The commander in charge of the Coast Guard Office, Lieutenant Colonel Dine welcomed this training " extremely useful which gives students hands-on training in the use of essential navigational equipment ».
Kinshasa (Congo). End of the initial training of commissioners of the National Police
The future commissioners of the Congolese National Police (PNC) received an initial training organized jointly by the European police training mission EUPOL RD Congo and the United Nations police (UNPOL). The objective of this workshop was to enable participants to develop two educational tools: the profile of the skills of a commissaire and the curriculum for the initial training of commissaires. This will serve as the basis for drafting the initial training modules for police commissioners, the general programming of the initial training for commissioners and the accelerated training for commissioners. Considering the importance of this workshop, the EUPOL mission also reinforced its pool of CAMO Formation experts by calling on an expert from the Belgian Federal Police during the four days of the workshop. Other international experts, notably from the United Nations Police (UNPOL) and the Delegation of the European Union (DUE), took part in this work.
