9:00-9:30 a.m. |
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Welcome and introductions
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9:30-10:15 a.m. |
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Keynote Address
Issues:
- Current status of CoESPU
- Role and vision for doctrinal development
- Priority tasks, challenges and requirements
(i.e., Shortfalls to be resolved before training can begin)
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10:30-12:00 p.m. |
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Panel I: SPU Doctrine: Current Status and the Way Ahead
Issues:
- How does each organization define the roles and missions of Stability Police Units?
- What is the process for doctrinal development?
- What is the current status of doctrinal development?
- Are there doctrinal discrepancies?
- How can discrepancies be resolved?
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12:00-2:00 p.m. |
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Working Lunch: International Response to Civil Disturbances:
The Case of Kosovo
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2:00-3:30 p.m. |
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Panel II: Command, Control and Coordination
Issues:
- Establishing joint command posts
- Establishing common operational awareness
- Role of liaisons among police-SPU-military
- Role of liaisons among international organizations
- Role of liaisons between international and local actors
- When and how to transfer primacy
- National caveats
- Contingency plans for full spectrum of responses
- Command post exercises
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3:45-5:00 p.m. |
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Panel III: Intelligence and the Development of Admissible Evidence
Issues:
- Strategic and tactical indicators
- Political reluctance to prepare for wide-scale disturbances
- Mechanisms for developing common situational awareness (while protecting sources/methods)
- Identifying ringleaders and obtaining admissible evidence for convictions
- Tools required to build judiciable cases (legal wiretaps, videotapes used on scene, recording protocols of who was where)
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8:00-10:45 a.m. |
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Panel IV: Crowd and Riot Control (CRC):
Tactics, Equipment, Training and Exercises
Issues:
- Use of combat units for CRC
- Use of civilian police for CRC
- Providing specialized equipment (protective gear, radios, non-lethal weaponry) and how to surge capability
- Availability and use of non-lethal weapons
- Dealing with multiple roadblocks
- Pre-deployment training and exercises
- In-theater combined SPU-military exercises for each rotation
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11:00-12:30 p.m. |
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Panel V: Working with local security forces
Issues:
- Creating a reliable and accountable capability
- Funding
- Role of translators
- Transitioning to local responsibility
- Intelligence gathering
- Collection of evidence
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12:30-1:30 p.m. |
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Lunch: Update on the European Gendarme Force
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1:30-2:45 p.m. |
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Panel VI: The Way Ahead
Issues:
- G-8 Objectives
- Role of CoESPU
- Function of CoESPU as a doctinal hub
- Immediate requirements to begin training
- Permanent arrangements for international staffing for CoESPU
- Selection of new SPUs for training
- Student qualifications and required skill sets
- Alternatives for equipping new units
- Concept for SPU certification and pre-mission preparation
- Other issues
- Next steps: Who is best to take the lead to address shortfalls?
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