EU trains Afghan police to make water bombs

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    • Water bombs play a strategic role in the training for Afghan police officers that's provided by the European Union. This exclusive footage shows how EU police officers train their Afghan counterparts in making a water bomb from a piece of paper, using an origami technique. The objective of this training is to demonstrate the importance of the 'under instruction' concept. When instructed properly, the entire class of Afghan police officers is able to make a water bomb. But when they have to repeat the process, and make a bomb on their own without instruction, most of them fail to do so. The teaching method makes it evident that training Afghan police officers is very difficult because many of them have not had any significant education and therefore have little understanding for the value of education. The European Union started its police training mission in Afghanistan in June 2007. Canada, Croatia, New Zealand and Norway also take part in the EUPOL training mission. After more than three years, EUPOL Afghanistan is still not able to train the numbers of Afghan police officers that it had envisaged. This because not enough police training officers are seconded by the EU member states. So, instead of directly training officers, the EUPOL mission focuses on 'training the trainers' and expects the Afghan trainers to take home the lessons learned at EUPOL. The European mission has trained several hundred trainers. It has a budget of about 55 million euro per year. The United States since 2001 has made available a budget of some 6 billion dollars for their attempt to train more than 13.000 police officers This video material was filmed in July 2009, when in Kabul on assignment for the European Council. The footage of the water bomb class was never used in any of the official video reports on the EUPOL mission. Background: http://www.euractiv.com/en/search/apachesolr_search/EUPOL?solrsort=created%20des Mission website: http://www.eupol-afg.eu/
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