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The cops in Buffalo raided the wrong apartment and terrorized an innocent family all in the name of the popular "War on Drugs".

I'll be waiting for the usual suspects to defend the cops and the War on Citizens Drugs.

Here's another shocking story of police brutality. Okay maybe it's not so shocking. It seems to be the norm these days.

The Canadian Pacific Railway Police Service, Vancouver, BC is hosting an intensive 5-day Criminal Intelligence Analysis Course for intelligence officers and crime and intelligence analysts from October 20th  to October 24th 2008.  The course will be presented by the Alpha Group Center for Crime and Intelligence Analysis and taught by Warren Sweeney, a thirty-year veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and former Intelligence Analysis Coordinator for the RCMP Canadian Police College in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)

 

This will be a "hands-on" course that takes a "learn-by-doing," practical approach to training.  Students will actually perform tasks associated with intelligence analysis work.  Each participant will also receive a copy of The Intelligence Analyst's Sourcebook.  Written by Warren Sweeney, this manual explains how to conduct, prepare, and present intelligence to enhance the investigative and decision-making process. 

 

Participants will be taught how to turn data into information; how to distinguish differences between Tactical, Strategic, and Operational Intelligence; how to overcome resistance to the intelligence process, how to establish links between people, organizations, and events; how to chart events, commodity flow, and activities within the Criminal organization; how to present intelligence effectively in oral and written reports; how to use the power of the computer to assist the intelligence function; and money laundering secrets and techniques.

 

Tuition for the course is $525 and includes the week of instruction, the text, and related course materials.  The course also fulfills the requirements of the California Department of Justice Certified Crime and Intelligence Analysis Program and may be used for Certification purposes. It is beneficial, but not required, to bring a laptop computer with you, which will permit the installation of a graphics program: ABC SnapGraphics 1.0.

 

To obtain a course brochure or to register for the course, please contact Diana Olson of the Alpha Group at (909) 484-2169 e-mail at: crimecrush@aol.com or contact Cst Ron Chomyn, Canadian Pacific Railway Police Service, SK, 306-931-7414, fax 306-931-7412 email ron_chomyn@cpr.ca Additional information about the content of the course can also be found on the Alpha Group website at www.alphagroupcenter.com

By Navy Seaman William Selby

Special to American Forces Press Service

 

Aug. 7, 2008 - In an effort to bolster the Afghan National Police, U.S. forces in southern Afghanistan recruited and sent a record 500 Afghan citizens to eight weeks of focused district development training, a military official said Aug. 6. "No other regions in the country have recruited nearly that amount during a training cycle," Army Col. John Cuddy, commander of the Regional Police Advisory Command South said during a call with online journalists and bloggers.

 

Due to the level of insurgent activity, Cuddy said, southern Afghanistan is the main effort in the fight against the enemies of Afghanistan.

 

"Today I was told by an Afghan general that if Kandahar becomes secure, all of Afghanistan will become secure," Cuddy said.

 

"What we're doing here in the provinces of Kandahar and Zabul, Helmand and Oruzgan is designed to create a strong, professional Afghan National Police force, ... an impact here in regard to the security of Afghanistan as well as the international community," he said. "We're in the most volatile region in the country, but we're also producing the most trained Afghan Police than any other region."

 

Cuddy explained that there have been challenges in their region, but U.S. forces have been "innovative and assertive" in meeting those challenges.

 

"For example, our efforts to train the Afghan National Police at the regional training center here in Kandahar is limited to only 350 training seats a cycle," he added. "In order to train more than the 350 allowed this cycle, we coordinated to send police to attend training at other Afghan regional training centers."

 

Cuddy stressed that much planning and coordination is needed between coalition forces, civilian contractors, government agencies, and the Afghan National Police in order for the police forces to train in different regions.

 

"Adding an additional 150 focused district development-trained Afghan National Police to the community is well worth the extra effort," Cuddy said.

 

The professionalism displayed by the Afghan instructors, Department of Defense civilian contractors, and military trainers is providing a solid, well-balanced program of instruction for these recruits, Cuddy said.

 

"As the focused district development program is aging, we're creating a better training program with each iteration, with police officers that graduate," Cuddy added. "We're honing their skills, and their understanding of what it means to be a police officer in this fight."

 

While the training has become more successful with each class, some adjustments have been made to turn around the deficiency in leadership. Noncommissioned officer corps and officer corps training has been added, he said.

 

Now, all officers and NCOs go through training together to build a bond, Cuddy said. In addition to the initial training, leadership development courses go on with the police mentor teams as well as advanced courses including marksmanship.

 

"Some of the marksmanship practices of the past were ... 'point and shoot,' ... usually 'spray and pray' kind of stuff," Cuddy said. "So we're trying to teach them that controlled marksmanship here at the [focused district development] cycle training."

 

Although there's still a great deal of work to be done and a lot more recruiting to be done, Cuddy seems to be encouraged by the effort of the Afghans.

 

"There's people looking to stand up for their country, to contribute to the security of their country, and to do better for themselves and their lives," he said.

 

(Navy Seaman William Selby works for the New Media directorate of the Defense Media Activity.)

(Xinhua News Agency July 2, 2008)--Public security officials on Tuesday defended police actions in dealing with violent protests in southwest China at the weekend, saying they showed "great restraint". However,world of warcraft goldj more than 150 people, including more than 100 police, were injured in Saturday's riots in Weng'an county, Guizhou Province, but no deaths were reported,buy wow gold said Wang Xingzheng, provincial public security department spokesman. "Most of them were slightly injured," Wang told a press conference on Tuesday evening. The police,cheap wow gold who were keeping order, had showed "great restraint" in face of the attacks with bricks and water bottles, he said. The incident began when about 300 people, including some who were dissatisfied with a police report on the death of a 17-year-old girl, the cheapest wow goldstarted to gather at about 4 PM on Saturday at the county government and public security bureau. The police report said Li Shufen, an eighth grader, had drowned herself. However, her family insisted she was raped and killed. The crowd swelled and reached as many as 30,wow power level000 people at one point. Eventually, they charged into the police building, smashed office facilities,age of conan cheap gold burnt vehicles and later some of them broke into the building of the county government and set about destroying facilities there. The chaos lasted almost seven hours and subsided on Sunday morning. The provincial Communist Party chief Shi Zongyuan on Monday called for local authorities to handle the incident properly. "We must put maintaining social harmony and stability on the top of our agenda," he said. The incident started from a simple cause, but was used and incited by a few people with ulterior motives, and some criminals took part, Shi said. Shi called for strict punishments for the organizers, ringleaders and key rioters, but an verbal caution for minor offenders. There must be deep-seated reasons beyond the death of the girl behind the violent protest, he said. Disputes over mines, immigration, relocation of residents for construction projects and other issues had not been given due attention for quite a long time. He criticized local officials, saying they had shortcomings that dissatisfied residents. "We must draw a lesson from the problems exposed."