Herat Province Police Chief visits EUPOL Field Office Herat, December 2014. To increase cooperation, Herat Provincial Police Chief, Major General Abdul Baqi Behsodi visited EUPOL Head of Field Office Massimo Pani and Deputy Head of Field Office Giuseppe Roccotelli in Herat. During the get-together meeting, both sides agreed to develop two strategic advising teams one formed by EUPOL staff and the other by the police chief himself, his deputy, the CID commander, the Human Rights and Gender Chief to develop common targets in 2015. Another major issue was the EUPOL’s role in 2015 when the revised EUPOL mandate and the common grounds of work for advising at the strategic level are in place. In addition to that, the EUPOL advisors stressed the need to increase the enrollment of women in the police force not only next year but also in the following 10 years in order to reach the 10% target foreseen by the Ministry of Interior. The police chief was very keen to recruit more female police officers but he also mentioned the cultural sensitivities of female recruitment. Issues like deployment of a female police officer far from her parents’ or their husband’s home and family authorisation prior to deployment in the night shifts can prevent women from being fully operational in the same way as their male coworkers. To overcome these hindrances, EUPOL and the MG Behsodi agreed to hire women who could take over administrative roles in 119 teams (Emergency Hotline) in the police HQ and in other non-operative roles. At the end of the meeting, an achievement certificate was handed over to MG Behsodi for his and his team’s best performance in terms of Project Phoenix implementation. Project Phoenix was an ambitious 18-month programme which delivered civilian and community policing principles to the Police Districts (PD’s) in Kabul, Mazar-e Sharif and Herat and concluded in November.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 06:11:51 +0000
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