U.S. Trained ISF Officers Graduate
On July 15, 2011, eleven officers completed the 13th U.S. - Lebanese Supervision and Management Course, including eight who also completed the Instructors course, at the Internal Security Forces Academy in Warwar.
Director of the Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Programs Thaddeus Kontek congratulated them upon their graduation.
The U.S. instruction team has trained over 7,600 ISF members in basic and advanced leadership courses since January 2008.
Officers learn the latest technical and leadership skills and how to apply these to on-the-job situations.
The training program curriculum includes modern police practices, understanding democratic policing and human rights, criminal investigation procedures and other essential law enforcement skills.
The current $132 million U.S. assistance program to the ISF strengthens the ISF and is part of the overall U.S. security assistance program to Lebanon.
The law enforcement assistance program assists the ISF to enforce the rule of law and protect the Lebanese people.
The professional development of the ISF is critical for Lebanon’s sovereignty, independence and security.
On Tuesday, 130 ISF officers graduated from the joint U.S. and ISF Community Policing training program, an eight-week training course taught by U.S. and Lebanese police instructors with the assistance of legal professionals.
ISF officers learn the latest policing, law enforcement and community relations skills -- and how to implement them effectively in real situations.
Congratulating the graduates, Deputy Chief of Mission Candace Putman explained that this specialized training program was designed as a pilot project for a single ISF police unit.
However, recognizing the wide-ranging benefits of community policing General Ashraf Rifi and the ISF leadership took the decision to implement community-oriented policing practices throughout Lebanon, developing partnerships between law enforcement agencies and citizens and organizations in order to solve problems and increase trust in the police.
15 July 2011, 16:21
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oh that's great. what we need is police state mentality that those officers learned in the usa. why don't we open guantanamo? or start with pat downs of the 6 year old children on the airport? oh i'm sure those officers learned a lot.
15 July 2011, 16:34
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And what has Iran done other than spread it's filth posing as islam?
15 July 2011, 16:50
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@jamal amel. Crawl back under the rock you came from. I have lived about half my life in Lebanon and half in the US (among other places), and I promise you that the training program is good thing. Stop using random half-baked examples of no relevance just to spread hate.
15 July 2011, 17:02
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jabal amel what do you think of M8 leaders who send their children to study in the USA? .... funny isn t it? please criticize them as well to be logic!
15 July 2011, 18:28
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jabal i thought you were stupid but your comment definently proves you are retarded. why do you hate the usa??? lebanoon is the usa of the mideast if you like it or not. oh they are training our police and you still have shit to talk. Go lick hassans nuts like you do always im sick of reading your shit. Oh and orthadox jew, you can kiss the feet of the Maronites with your big jew nose
15 July 2011, 21:23
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by 'police state' jamal amel means a country where laws are enforced and the state has the most power.
NO we sure wouldn't want that here.
Much better to be a Iranian emirate.
15 July 2011, 22:58
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Us Orthodox are before and above all Christians,and most of us fought ans support the LF ,this phony scumbag pretending he is orthodox is nothing but a retard refugee fakihi style.
Jabal amel is another mongolian very much mentally disturbed,who sees spies everywhere, anyways better be anything but an iranian slave and a traitor to Lebanon.
15 July 2011, 23:01
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Great idea ,We should open a Guantanamo to make our region a safer placeand more abughreib as a division for the extremists.
God bless Lebanon and the USA !
15 July 2011, 23:33
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stupidity is a good sign of ignorance and blind believe in fanatic shia
wake up people and don,t be naive and believ in in iran that kills its poeple.
be lebanese first . loveur country and love each other and don,t follow a guy that is in hiding for the rest of hislife
a rat lives in darkness
16 July 2011, 12:01
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"ALERT!! zionist detected!!
shab, peace, falanges, bashir.
are you guys in zionist war information department paid by the message or by hour?
16 July 2011, 14:05
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jabal habal if it turns you on calling Lebanese whom love their country before fatso in the hole a Zionist, well who cares? Blow me.
