Translation of "peloton de police militaire " (French → English) :

C. whereas the crisis culminated on 7 November when – after a series of previous opposition rallies during which the number of protesters reached 70 000 and then fell to a few hundred, who were then forced away from the main thoroughfare – riot troops used clubs, water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets to break up fresh demonstrations which occurred, demonstrators were severely beaten, among them tens of journalists and the Georgian Public Defender (Ombudsman) Sozar Subari; whereas after the violent clashes more than 500 people had to seek medical treatment; whereas on 7 November Imedi TV broadcast false and unfounded information about alleged plans by the police to storm ...[+++]the main Orthodox Cathedral, thus provoking masses of citizens in Tbilisi to take to the streets; whereas the same day, Imedi TV, Georgia's most important independent television broadcasting station, which is financially controlled by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, was forced off the air by the military police, and all other non-state broadcasters were banned from reporting news; whereas in the evening of 7 November President Saakashvili imposed a 15-day state of emergency which lasted 9 days,

develop and provide training to prepare police forces of the European Union for participation in non-military crisis management;

to enable the PSC to determine, taking account of the security situation and advice from HR/EUSR, the EU Force Commander, and the Head of Mission EUPM, and following EUMC and CIVCOM advice, whether all or part of the Integrated Police Unit style capability should be repositioned within EUSR domain, for duties in support of the Rule of Law, including in support of State Information and Protection Agency (SIPA). In this case, the composition of the police and military missions shall be reviewed.

Reform of core security actors such as the military, paramilitary, police as well as its civilian oversight structures, are of fundamental importance to create safe security environments and to keep the security sector permanently subject to the same governance norms as other parts of the public sector and military forces under the political control of a civilian authority.

International co-operation is further complicated by the co-existence in many countries of different police bodies, e.g. civil-status police, military-status police, national, regional, local police or a fully regionalised police.

In order to achieve its objectives, CEPOL may undertake a number of actions, mainly provide training sessions, based on common standards, for senior police officers; contribute to the preparation of harmonised programmes and help set up appropriate advanced training programmes; provide specialist training; develop and provide training for trainers; disseminate best practice and research findings; develop and provide training to prepare police forces of the European Union for participation in non-military crisis management and for ...[+++] police authorities from the States applying for membership of the European Union, and facilitate relevant exchanges and secondments of police officers in the context of training.