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Third phase of multi-ethnic police training in southern Serbia begins today
BELGRADE 6 August 2001
BELGRADE, 6 August 2001 (OSCE) - The third phase of multi-ethnic police training in southern Serbia, organized jointly by the Serbian Ministry of the Interior and the OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, will start today at the police training centre in Mitrovo Polje.
"Until May 2002, the training centre will be reserved exclusively for participants of this multi-ethnic training programme", said Stella Ronner, the Spokesperson of the OSCE Mission to the FRY. "Four separate courses will be organized of 12 weeks each, and each comprising up to 100 future police officers, both of Serb and ethnic Albanian origin".
Building on the experience and the encouraging results of the first two phases of its multi-ethnic police training programme for southern Serbia, the OSCE Mission to the FRY has been and continues to be actively involved in the implementation of this phase of the training programme, e.g. by working together with the Serb Ministry of Interior and ethnic Albanian representatives on the selection of candidates, and also by providing international instructors.
"The OSCE Mission to the FRY is pleased that recent gatherings of its representatives with the local population in the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja have resulted in a large number of Serb and ethnic Albanian candidates for the training. This shows the commitment of both ethnic communities to the multi-ethnic police as a tool for the establishment of security and peace in southern Serbia", said the Mission's Spokesperson. She added that the OSCE Mission to the FRY "in the near future is looking forward to the inclusion of women in training courses, as well as to the training centre in Mitrovo Polje broadening its scope in the sense that it will train police officers to be deployed in other minority areas and become a regular element in the training of national police provided by the Ministry of Interior."
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For more information please contact Stella Ronner, Spokesperson, OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, tel.: +381 11 367 24 25, mobile: +381 63 315 969; e-mail: osce-portparol@omifry.org, website: www.osce.org/yugoslavia/
"Until May 2002, the training centre will be reserved exclusively for participants of this multi-ethnic training programme", said Stella Ronner, the Spokesperson of the OSCE Mission to the FRY. "Four separate courses will be organized of 12 weeks each, and each comprising up to 100 future police officers, both of Serb and ethnic Albanian origin".
Building on the experience and the encouraging results of the first two phases of its multi-ethnic police training programme for southern Serbia, the OSCE Mission to the FRY has been and continues to be actively involved in the implementation of this phase of the training programme, e.g. by working together with the Serb Ministry of Interior and ethnic Albanian representatives on the selection of candidates, and also by providing international instructors.
"The OSCE Mission to the FRY is pleased that recent gatherings of its representatives with the local population in the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja have resulted in a large number of Serb and ethnic Albanian candidates for the training. This shows the commitment of both ethnic communities to the multi-ethnic police as a tool for the establishment of security and peace in southern Serbia", said the Mission's Spokesperson. She added that the OSCE Mission to the FRY "in the near future is looking forward to the inclusion of women in training courses, as well as to the training centre in Mitrovo Polje broadening its scope in the sense that it will train police officers to be deployed in other minority areas and become a regular element in the training of national police provided by the Ministry of Interior."
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For more information please contact Stella Ronner, Spokesperson, OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, tel.: +381 11 367 24 25, mobile: +381 63 315 969; e-mail: osce-portparol@omifry.org, website: www.osce.org/yugoslavia/