CANADA: IRAQI POLICE TRAINING PROGRAM IN JORDAN

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/22/2015
TAGS: PTER SNAR SOCI CA IQ
SUBJECT: CANADA: IRAQI POLICE TRAINING PROGRAM IN JORDAN

REF: A. BAGHDAD 735


B. STATE 72189


1. (U) The Government of Canada has every intention to
continue its International Police Trainers participation at
the Jordan International Police Training Center through
CY2006. According to Foreign Affairs Canada, Regional
Peacekeeping Director Wendy Gilmour on April 22,
recommendations have already moved forward in Ottawa's
bureaucracy to at least maintain the full complement of 20
Canadian trainers in Jordan. She noted however that the
final decision would be made by the Canada International
Development Agency (CIDA) and remains subject to available
funds. Gilmour stressed that she did not foresee a problem as
the budgetary provisions were submitted earlier this year and
had engendered no objections.


2. (C/NF) In confidence Gilmour said that Ottawa would
positively respond to the request to increase the number of
Canadian trainers in Jordan, subject to funding. In order to
do this, however, Gilmour noted that CIDA, as a development
agency quote hell bent to program to specific and clearly
identified needs, thus ensuring end product sustainability
unquote would respond best to a detailed list of training
needs, i.e., forensics, police mid-management, crime scene
protection, etc. Blanket requests for increased
participation, she feared would fall on deaf ears as CIDA
unqote is demand not supply driven unquote.


3. (C/NF) Gilmour continued that her government vastly
preferred that the training program in Jordan be used to the
fullest for the foreseeable future. She said the current and
projected security environment in Iraq makes it impossible
for Canada to deploy Canadians there except in very few
numbers. She insisted this prohibition was non-negotiable.
That said, however, Gilmour said that Canada would be willing
to send two more Canadian police to Baghdad to work with the
Ministry of the Interior so long as everyone understood that
all Canadian police officers sent to Iraq are and would be
prohibited by Ottawa from departing the Green Zone. (Note:
Canada has two police officers currently in Baghdad under the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police's International
Assistance/Training Program. Both are MoI advisors and are
embedded with the UK's Police Assistance Team and any
additional officers would be as well. The first of the
current officers, from the Peel Police Department, is due out
of country this July and his replacement has already been
selected. The second officer, a Mountie from the Toronto
office, is expected to remain through the end of 2005.)

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