The U.N.-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) has started to train justice police officers on Monday under Swiss sponsorship, local newspapers reported on Tuesday.
Thirty-one officials from the Ministry of Interior, Phnom Penh municipality and Kompong Speu province are attending the three-day training course focusing on responsibility, ethical code, professional conduct, international humanity laws and war crime evidence, said the Koh Santepheap.
Also included in the course are investigative procedures and planning, inquiry skills, document keeping, reporting, and video and audio recording, it added.
The 31 trainees are the first of a group of 121 police officers from across the country the ECCC plans to train this month through courses to be run by two lecturers from the Institute for International Criminal Investigations and the Hague's prosecution office, said the Reach Seima News.
"The study course is a complement to what Cambodia lacks because we know that the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) tribunal is extraordinary. It is not ordinary," the Koh Santepheap ECCC quoted spokesperson Reach Sambath as saying.
"For an ordinary tribunal, we can directly arrest perpetrators and bring them to the court, which will then impose changes. But for the DK tribunal, we know that the stories occurred more than 30 years ago, and for the training, our justice police officials will gain additional knowledge of how to launch an international standard investigation," he added.
After failing to reach an agreement on the ECCC's internal rules twice in November and January, its judges plan to meet again in March to finalize regulations expected to govern everything from trial chambers to victims' rights.
After six years of talks, the U.N. and Cambodia agreed in 2003 to set up the ECCC to jointly hold trial of the former DK leaders. Formal trial is expected to begin in mid-2007 and the entire process will take three years at the cost of 56.3 million U.S. dollars.
The DK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979 and was accused of being responsible for the death of 1.7 million people.
Source: Xinhua
Thirty-one officials from the Ministry of Interior, Phnom Penh municipality and Kompong Speu province are attending the three-day training course focusing on responsibility, ethical code, professional conduct, international humanity laws and war crime evidence, said the Koh Santepheap.
Also included in the course are investigative procedures and planning, inquiry skills, document keeping, reporting, and video and audio recording, it added.
The 31 trainees are the first of a group of 121 police officers from across the country the ECCC plans to train this month through courses to be run by two lecturers from the Institute for International Criminal Investigations and the Hague's prosecution office, said the Reach Seima News.
"The study course is a complement to what Cambodia lacks because we know that the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) tribunal is extraordinary. It is not ordinary," the Koh Santepheap ECCC quoted spokesperson Reach Sambath as saying.
"For an ordinary tribunal, we can directly arrest perpetrators and bring them to the court, which will then impose changes. But for the DK tribunal, we know that the stories occurred more than 30 years ago, and for the training, our justice police officials will gain additional knowledge of how to launch an international standard investigation," he added.
After failing to reach an agreement on the ECCC's internal rules twice in November and January, its judges plan to meet again in March to finalize regulations expected to govern everything from trial chambers to victims' rights.
After six years of talks, the U.N. and Cambodia agreed in 2003 to set up the ECCC to jointly hold trial of the former DK leaders. Formal trial is expected to begin in mid-2007 and the entire process will take three years at the cost of 56.3 million U.S. dollars.
The DK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979 and was accused of being responsible for the death of 1.7 million people.
Source: Xinhua
1 comment:
If only ordinary police officers were paid more, they would value loosing their job, and doesn't have to resort to bribery and corruption.
We can lecture and teach ordinary police as much as we can, but if they are paid meager salaries, it doesn't do any good.
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