MORE MINURCAT TRAINED GENDDARMES AND POLICE

C O N F I D E N T I A L NDJAMENA 000500

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/29/2010
TAGS: PREL KPKO PREF PGOV PHUM CD
SUBJECT: MORE MINURCAT TRAINED GENDDARMES AND POLICE
GRADUATE; EASTERN DEPLOYMENT UNDERWAY.

REF: NDJAMENA 491

Classified By: DCM REGribbin for reasons 1.4 b&c


1. (U) DCM attended the October 28 graduation parade for 111
Chadian policewomen (and men) assigned to MINURCAT's DIS
(Integrated Security Detachment) police force. Under the
joint field direction of MINURCAT and their Chadian
commanders, these graduates of the specialized UN training
course are well prepared to police the refugee and IDP camps
in accordance with the UNSC mandate. A special effort was
made to recruit women for the DIS force. This group was
composed of 67 women and 44 men.


2. (U) During the ceremony both the MINURCAT commander
General Chaumont and the Chadian Special Presidential
representative for liaison with MINURCAT and EUFOR, Dr.
Moctar Moussa Mahamat, made it a point to note that 100
police from the first group trained have already deployed to
the east. Another twenty-five will fly out October 29.


3. (C) Chaumont confided privately, however, that even though
facilities are ready and vehicles are in place, posting the
force forward to Goz Beida and Farachana from Abeche still
awaited Chad's naming the detachment commanders for those
locations. In his graduation speech, SRSG Angelo publicly
asked that those slots be filled soonest.


3. (C) Comment: MINURCAT gains momentum day by day. It
intends to have all of its projected 850 Chadian police and
gendarmes trained by year's end. The hiccups that slow more
systemic deployment are overcome one by one. We judge that
the delays experienced are not intentional, but rather due to
Chadian innefficiency and ineffectiveness. Although Chad
remains very much a third world nation where things just do
not happen quickly, its commitment to MINURCAT seems to be
strong.
NIGRO