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Formed Police Units Train of Trainer Course

for

Mauritanian National Gendarmerie

2017 saw CoESPU deploy their own
instructors to West Africa in order to
complete the preparation of the 3rd
Mauritanian FPU to be used in a very
delicate and crucial Operational
Theater like the one of Bangui,
Central African Republic -
MINUSCA mission. The first
experience ever for the Center of
Excellence to form an organic Unit
of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
even if, in the past, CoESPU has
already had other opportunities to
train individual high-profile officers Classroom lesson
from that National Gendarmerie. The results achieved both on the Mauritanian side and on the part
of the United Nations and the CoESPU itself at the end of the FPAT-AOC (Formed Police
Assessment Team - Assessment of Operational Capabilities) went well beyond expectations that
was so good to think about future cooperation. Considering the technical-tactical starting level of
the Unit, the challenges were gathered and carried forward in preparation of the 3rd FPU by the
MMT (Mobile Mentoring Team) in
all the sectors of pre-deployment
training (basic police techniques,
firearms, self-defense, public order,
convoy escort, checkpoint, etc.) both
in the Italian phase (25 September
2017 - 20 October 2017) as well as in
the second phase called in country
(24 October - 17 November 2016)
where 29 trainers trained in Vicenza
during the first phase were able to
train the entire Formed Police Unit
under the careful and constant

Shooting range dry exercises guidance of the MMT (Mobile
Mentoring Team). The MMT, led by Italian Carabinieri, was formed by 3 CoESPU instructors who
are experts of UN technical and tactical Standard Operational Procedures and, furthermore, French

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