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“Twinning Project with Turkish Jandarma”

Ankara (Turkey), 2017 - 2019

Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of General Command of
Gendarmerie Regarding Public Order Management and Crowd
Control”. Last September two different CoESPU teams of experts
deployed in Ankara worked side by side with the Turkish Jandarma
instructors for a Public Order Management and Crowd and Riot
Control course delivered in benefit of more than 120 attendees
coming from different parts of the country. The need to learn tactics
and procedures in the framework of European Union Standards
Values and principles is the main purpose of the Partnership. Fruitful
was the training for the attendees that have enhanced their skills in
planning, managing and resolving all situations properly following
the escalation of the use of force process according to the international law and standards. The
venue of the training was the JOAK (Jandarma Special Operations Command).

"Mauritanian Mission 2018"

By Capt. Nicola CARRERA

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Nouakchott (Mauritania), November 3 – December 1 , 2018
The CoESPU Mobile Mentoring Team has been sent to
Nouakchott to conduct the second phase of the pre-
deployment training for formed police units in favor of
Mauritanian National Gendarmerie. After the excellent
results coming from the deployment in Nouakchott last
year, also 2018 saw CoESPU deploy their own instructors
to West Africa in order to complete the preparation of the
4th Mauritanian FPU to be used in a very crucial and
sensitive Operational Theater like the one of Bangui, Central African Republic - MINUSCA
mission. The second 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 from that National Gendarmerie. The results achieved on
the Mauritanian side, the United Nations and the CoESPU itself at the end of the training went
very well, beyond expectations that was so good to think about future cooperation. Considering
the technical-tactical starting level of the Unit and the job already carried out in 2017, the
challenges were gathered and carried forward in preparation of the 4th FPU by the MMT
(Mobile Mentoring Team) in all the sectors which the pre-deployment training is composed of
(basic police techniques, firearms, self-defense, public order, convoy escort, checkpoint, etc)
both in the Italian phase (1 October 2018 - 26 October 2018) as well as in the second phase

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