JMfin
12-14-2009, 07:21 AM
Afghan police EOD team of the first training course participants licenses expired on Saturday, the division of Balkh province police station. A series of Finnish crisis management and cooperation with the Finnish police to improve the course taken by the Afghan police's ability to land a variety of homemade improvised bombs, particularly in the north. Foreign Ministry-funded project cost about EUR 350 000 to help cover the purchase of modern equipment, premises and other education expenses.
The first of its kind in the four-month course was originated in Afghanistan, operating in the Finnish police advisers to the idea. Armed forces and police sent to the place of its own experts and on-site training was launched in April 2009.
Homemade bombs are another chapter in the clashes in Afghanistan. Afghanistan, thousands of civilians are killed each year by terrorists and other criminals would be manufactured by the homemade bombs.
- Afghan police officers have previously received training in different types of explosives from the military. Now you go to train reportedly was the first real bomb group, whose starting point is the bomb-makers and the dismantling of the capture and trial supply, "says instructor acted as specialist police Marko Myllymaa.
Get your equipment in the local police can not only clearing up the bombs, but also to investigate related crimes. In addition, the training and equipment tailored to the local police officers at their own culture and respecting the specific conditions.
- Last year alone police officers were killed over a thousand bombs. Most of these losses caused by improvised explosive devices, justifies the second pääkouluttaja, Major Mika Tyry.
Responsibility will be transferred to local education through the
The responsibility for safety in the Swedish-Finnish crisis management force in the future will be to transfer responsibility of the ISAF troops in Afghanistan to its own authorities.
The first group trained in bomb nine police officers. Training was carried out by German police training center building, which also will be time to give the local authorities.
Training consisted of both theory and practice. Various types of blasting was carried out nearly two hundred. Pragmatism was achieved by constructing the bombs, all the training itself locally acquired equipment and installing them just as the tools to build a real destination. Bomb-models approach was applied for the preparation or actual attacks.
On Saturday, the allocation of certificates held in connection with course participants and praised the Finnish government leaders in this effort so important to them in education.
- I thank the Finnish and deeply hope that we can now do a good job for our people, the course was a police officer Atigulah said.
The first of its kind in the four-month course was originated in Afghanistan, operating in the Finnish police advisers to the idea. Armed forces and police sent to the place of its own experts and on-site training was launched in April 2009.
Homemade bombs are another chapter in the clashes in Afghanistan. Afghanistan, thousands of civilians are killed each year by terrorists and other criminals would be manufactured by the homemade bombs.
- Afghan police officers have previously received training in different types of explosives from the military. Now you go to train reportedly was the first real bomb group, whose starting point is the bomb-makers and the dismantling of the capture and trial supply, "says instructor acted as specialist police Marko Myllymaa.
Get your equipment in the local police can not only clearing up the bombs, but also to investigate related crimes. In addition, the training and equipment tailored to the local police officers at their own culture and respecting the specific conditions.
- Last year alone police officers were killed over a thousand bombs. Most of these losses caused by improvised explosive devices, justifies the second pääkouluttaja, Major Mika Tyry.
Responsibility will be transferred to local education through the
The responsibility for safety in the Swedish-Finnish crisis management force in the future will be to transfer responsibility of the ISAF troops in Afghanistan to its own authorities.
The first group trained in bomb nine police officers. Training was carried out by German police training center building, which also will be time to give the local authorities.
Training consisted of both theory and practice. Various types of blasting was carried out nearly two hundred. Pragmatism was achieved by constructing the bombs, all the training itself locally acquired equipment and installing them just as the tools to build a real destination. Bomb-models approach was applied for the preparation or actual attacks.
On Saturday, the allocation of certificates held in connection with course participants and praised the Finnish government leaders in this effort so important to them in education.
- I thank the Finnish and deeply hope that we can now do a good job for our people, the course was a police officer Atigulah said.