Not bad, 4 posts total, including the original and only one on topic, the original post.
Considering the relevance of what is being proposed by the EU I am sure the above discussion is a bit thin.
Just to reiterate the original story.
It is also interesting that the two articles on the same topic have slightly different slants.
Also in this case I have included a reference as distinct to the original posting.
EU anti-terror czar urges help for Pakistan police
29 January 2009, 17:14 CET
(BRUSSELS) - The European Union's anti-terror czar urged EU nations Thursday to help bolster Pakistan's police force and justice system, which he said was a key to defeating terrorism there.
"This country is faced with very, very serious security problems," EU counter-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove told members of the European Parliament.
"The government needs our support, economic support of course, but also in terms of security," he told the assembly's security and defence subcommittee in Brussels. "The needs for this are huge."
He said the security problem was most acute in the largely lawless tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, but also in the Punjab region, whose militants he described as even "more sophisticated".
De Kerchove, who recently returned from a visit to Pakistan, said that while the army could capture extremists it had trouble to stop them returning to action.
"The military are not trained for that," he said. "They really need to move toward a law enforcement approach."
"Most of the terrorists arrested last year have been released for lack of evidence," he said. "The justice aspect should not be overlooked, and I hope to convince (EU) member states to increase assistance to actively help Pakistan."
The European Commission is to set afoot an expert mission which will travel to Pakistan, in the late European spring or summer, to examine what the EU can do to help improve police forensics and crime scene analysis.
The EU is also debating how it can help Pakistan better confront security problems through the possible use of European development funds and assistance to the media.
EU anti-terror czar urges help for Pakistan police — EUbusiness.com - business, legal and economic news and information from the European Union
Some issue were raised in this:
De Kerchove made the following points/comments.
Point 1
the army could capture extremists it had trouble to stop them returning to action
"The military are not trained for that,"
What this points strongly to is the fact the military should not be doing a law enforcement job as it is not trained to develop the evidence trails necessary to make a charge stick in a court of law.
This is not a fault of the military but a base fault in using the military incorrectly.
Point 2
"They really need to move toward a law enforcement approach."
The justice aspect should not be overlooked
The chasing down of evidence and being able to present the material in an appropriate manner is the jurisdiction of law enforcement. These are judicial issues not military.
What is being proposed is to provide based on direct dialogue funding to help strengthen that law enforcement and judicial aspect of counter terrorism so those brought to trial are not released due to lack of evidence.
The piece that seems odd is this
assistance to the media.
This may reflect the need for education of the media to learn that justice is only delivered in a court of law not in the public forum.
