Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09ASHGABAT500
2009-04-20 10:38:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Ashgabat
Cable title:
TURKMENISTAN: LAW ENFORCMENT OFFICERS DISCUSS THE
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UNCLAS ASHGABAT 000500
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR INL (A. BUHLER) AND SCA/CEN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: SNAR PGOV TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: LAW ENFORCMENT OFFICERS DISCUSS THE
U.S. JUDICIAL SYSTEM
REF: TANGBORN/BUHLER E-MAIL OF 4/17.
UNCLAS ASHGABAT 000500
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR INL (A. BUHLER) AND SCA/CEN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: SNAR PGOV TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: LAW ENFORCMENT OFFICERS DISCUSS THE
U.S. JUDICIAL SYSTEM
REF: TANGBORN/BUHLER E-MAIL OF 4/17.
1. (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet.
2. (U) Poloff, at the request of an instructor at Post's
INL-funded English Training Center (ELT) for Turkmen law
enforcment officers, gave a presentation to a group of
students on April 17 in which she outlined the foundation and
structure of the U.S. judiciary. (NOTE: The ELT courses are
offered six mornings a week to two groups of approximately 25
students each who have been selected from a number of Turkmen
government agencies, including the Ministries of National
Security, Foreign Affairs, and Interior, the State Border
Service, Migration Service, and Counter Narcotics Service.
The course content is focused on law and law-enforcement
related topics. END NOTE.)
3. (U) Based on the questions asked, several students
displayed impressive language skills for students with
relatively little prior training in English and who have been
in class only for the past four months. They also raised a
number incisive legal questions, including several
hypothetical situations surrounding U.S. 4th amendment
protections against unlawful searches and seizures. A few of
the most penetrating questions came from a young department
head and legal advisor with the Ministry of the Interior.
4. (U) After the session, one of the ELT instructors said
that her students would benefit from more U.S. reference
materials (the materials currently available in the ELT
library were all published in the UK),including a law
dictionary, and other books and materials on issues such as
Trafficking in Persons (TIP),Counter-narcotics (CN),as well
as U.S. law enforcement/national security agencies such as
the FBI and CIA. She further requested that Poloff give
subsequent presentations on TIP, CN, and other related issues
in the next few months.
5. (SBU) COMMENT: The ELT program is one of the rare venues
in which Turkmen law enforcement personnel, who are normally
bound by strict contact rules governing their dealings with
foreign diplomats, can converse somewhat freely with Embassy
personnel. Post plans to follow up with INL regarding
recommendations for the requested reference materials. In
addition, we plan to look into the possibility of a
law-enforcement related project with the Ministry of the
Interior as part of our upcoming INL project proposal. END
COMMENT.
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SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR INL (A. BUHLER) AND SCA/CEN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: SNAR PGOV TX
SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN: LAW ENFORCMENT OFFICERS DISCUSS THE
U.S. JUDICIAL SYSTEM
REF: TANGBORN/BUHLER E-MAIL OF 4/17.
1. (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet.
2. (U) Poloff, at the request of an instructor at Post's
INL-funded English Training Center (ELT) for Turkmen law
enforcment officers, gave a presentation to a group of
students on April 17 in which she outlined the foundation and
structure of the U.S. judiciary. (NOTE: The ELT courses are
offered six mornings a week to two groups of approximately 25
students each who have been selected from a number of Turkmen
government agencies, including the Ministries of National
Security, Foreign Affairs, and Interior, the State Border
Service, Migration Service, and Counter Narcotics Service.
The course content is focused on law and law-enforcement
related topics. END NOTE.)
3. (U) Based on the questions asked, several students
displayed impressive language skills for students with
relatively little prior training in English and who have been
in class only for the past four months. They also raised a
number incisive legal questions, including several
hypothetical situations surrounding U.S. 4th amendment
protections against unlawful searches and seizures. A few of
the most penetrating questions came from a young department
head and legal advisor with the Ministry of the Interior.
4. (U) After the session, one of the ELT instructors said
that her students would benefit from more U.S. reference
materials (the materials currently available in the ELT
library were all published in the UK),including a law
dictionary, and other books and materials on issues such as
Trafficking in Persons (TIP),Counter-narcotics (CN),as well
as U.S. law enforcement/national security agencies such as
the FBI and CIA. She further requested that Poloff give
subsequent presentations on TIP, CN, and other related issues
in the next few months.
5. (SBU) COMMENT: The ELT program is one of the rare venues
in which Turkmen law enforcement personnel, who are normally
bound by strict contact rules governing their dealings with
foreign diplomats, can converse somewhat freely with Embassy
personnel. Post plans to follow up with INL regarding
recommendations for the requested reference materials. In
addition, we plan to look into the possibility of a
law-enforcement related project with the Ministry of the
Interior as part of our upcoming INL project proposal. END
COMMENT.
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