MIADIT Palestine: training activity started

(To Greater Defense)
28/01/20

In the framework of the Italian Training Mission MIADIT Palestina 12 the activity of training of the Carabinieri in favor of the Security Forces ofPalestinian National Authority.

In the next three months the Italian carabinieri, under the command of Colonel Angelo Cuneo, will carry out training and specialization courses for the bodies responsible for the safety of the areas under the responsibility of the PA.

The instructors belong to departments mainly employed in missions outside the national territory (2nd mobile brigade, 1st parachute regiment Tuscania, 7th regiment Trentino Alto Adige, 13th regiment Friuli Venezia Giulia) and to departments of the territorial line that have a prevalent use in the daily control of the territory.

The MIADIT Palestine 12 courses will provide students with the skills to plan and carry out police activities in particular contexts with advanced operating techniques and procedures, in full compliance with international human rights legislation. Topography, shooting training, safety driving, road traffic control, planning and management of anti-drug and organized crime activities will also be explored.

Two courses are included in the program Train the trainers, aimed at training instructors, dedicated to gender and technical issues, tactics and control procedures of the territory. The best visitors will be called to Italy at the Center of Excellence for Stability Policing Units (CoESPU) of Vicenza to attend second level training courses to acquire, also, the qualification of instructors. Both initiatives are part of capacity building operations, also carried out in other missions outside the area, in order to support the development of local police forces.

In the first 11 editions of the mission, MIADIT Palestine trained more than three thousand members of the Palestinian Security Forces.