US trainers to be provided alternate location
Local Thursday, January 21st, 2010Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Tuesday acknowledged the US support for anti-terror training of Pakistan police officers and pledged to soon provide alternate training location to foreign experts working at Sihala.
“After successful US initiative; Australian and French experts would also be arriving in the country to impart modern terror-combat training to civilian law enforcement agencies of Pakistan,” Malik told journalists at the parliament house.
However, the interior ministry has taken them out from Sihala Police Training College due to security reasons and in response the overwhelming public demand.
“We do acknowledge the US support for raising standard of our police and for improving professional capabilities of civilian law-enforcement personnel.” They have done well and we shall provide them with alternate training facility,” said the minister. It was a positive initiative on the part of the US administration and now France and Australia have shown their interest to send experts too, he added.
“The US has also spent around Rs20 million on training of police officers. Let us take this initiative as positive because the government spends million of rupees on studies and training of police officials in foreign countries, however, now these countries are coming for our support at our home,” Malik continued.
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on Jan 21 2010. Filed under