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Visit to CoESPU of the Jordan Directorate of Gendarmerie .
Vicenza, October 20-23 2009
Visit to CoESPU of the Jordan Directorate of Gendarmerie A delegation of the Jordan Directorate of Gendarmerie, composed by Colonel Atef Odeh Gheith, Assistant Director for Operations and Training, and Major Mohammed I.A. Shara, Director of Secretariat of the Gendarmerie Force, visited the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units in Vicenza.

Purpose of the visit was to promote the relationship and enhance the cooperation with CoESPU. The delegation was received by CoESPU's Director, Brigadier General Umberto Rocca.

The visit permitted to know that, since 1st January 2009, in Jordan has been established the Directorate General of Darak Force, belonging to the Ministry of Interior.

Currently the Jordan Darak Force deploy 9 Formed Police Units (FPUs) in Darfur, Ivory Coast, Haiti and Liberia, besides many observers.



Visit to CoESPU of the Jordan Directorate of Gendarmerie Therefore the Jordan Darak Force is one of the main Police Peacekeepers contributors in UN DPKO Peacekeeping missions.

Many of those Peacekeepers are among the 355 Jordan Police Officers that have attended High Level and Middle management Courses at CoESPU.

The delegation has also paid a visit to the European Gendarmerie Force Headquarter.

The members of the delegation expressed words of appreciation for Carabinieri Corps and their satisfaction for the activities performed at CoESPU and underlined great interest in renewing and implementing the cooperation in the future.
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