Talk:State Police (Albania)

The following could be the start of a section on the rebuilding of the Albanian Police Force after the 1997 collapse. It is drawn from www.weu.int, the body responsible, and was written as an authoritative viewpoint for the future use of historians. WEU is extremely unlikely to seek to impose copyright on an NPOV information body like Wikipedia.

* Mission in Albania

In May 1997, the WEU Council decided to send a Multinational Advisory Police Element to Albania, as part of the efforts undertaken in that country by the international community, notably the OSCE and the EU. The primary aim of MAPE was to provide advice and train instructors.

A key part of MAPE’s work was to provide advice to the Ministry of Public Order on restructuring the Albanian police. A new State Police Law was drawn up with MAPE’s support and contained the foundations for building a democratic police to internationally accepted standards.

Approximately 3000 police officers were trained in the Tirana Training Centre (Police Academy), in a second training centre in Durres and through field training programmes.

On 2 February 1999, the WEU Council approved plans for an enhanced MAPE mission with a mandate until April 2000. This mission was conducted by WEU at the request of the EU on the basis of an Article J.4.2 decision, enabling among other things a major part of the costs to be met from the EU budget.

MAPE enhanced its geographical coverage and increased its operational mobility. The mission expanded its training and advice to selected ministries, directorates and "low risk" police districts down to the operational unit level. MAPE’s strength was approximately 143 by mid-1999.

WEU’s mission played an important role during the Kosovo refugee crisis from April 1999 by supporting the Albanian police in their responsibilities for receiving, registering, supervising and escorting refugees. MAPE maintained constant contacts with the Ministry of Public Order. WEU assisted the Albanians in setting up their own joint crisis centre and a 24-hour MAPE presence was provided to support them in its operations and decisions.

MAPE teams were dispatched to Kukes, near the Kosovo border, to assist the police directorate there, as well as to the police directorates in Tirana and Durres.

The MAPE mission finally terminated on 31 May 2001. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.63.24.114 (talk) 18:01, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

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 * Better yet, I was a senior WEU staffer, and accountant for the MAPE mission from beginning (in fact, the pathfinder used money from my own pocket as we could not get the Belgian banks to wake up) to the very end. WEU no longer exists, and so cannot impose copyright. One element of my team on the ground is that it included the financial and legal advisers who guided the Albanians hands in restructuring their banking and legal system within the wider support mechanisms.
 * The situation we discovered was chaotic: the country had spent three days in utter anarchy as the economy had collapsed, and the police deserted, their armouries emptied by heaven only knows who, probably the mafia or local militias. Such police as eventually resurfaced had to be reducated away from a system I think could best be described as feudal, where their power gave very many the effective entitlement to benefit from all kinds of graft and corruption: our staff spent much of their time retraining repalcements, not only for the empty slots but also for those who lacked the moral foundations to be law officers. Amazingly, we only had one death, and that from natural causes, our medical centres also helping the local population.
 * The mission was closed with a degree of alacrity because the host body, WEU, was being seriously wound back on 1st July 2001, transferring its operational function to the Council of the European Union. The EU had actually created some serious problems in its one attempt to become involved, as some irresponsible joker (I'm sorry, I have no better word for someone who acted so irresponsibly) reassigned the funds the EU committed to their contribution to another project: we operated lean and so had no spare capacity to fill the gap they left. We eventually allowed them back in to an area which was not mission-critical, and so it was felt MAPE was better finished than under a body whose command structures were not present (in fact, the command structure took two more years to come together even in a ntoional form) and lacked experience.
 * The mission was under the command of the Italian Carabinieri General Pietro Pistolese, and very many went on to operate the Rafah Crossing. Its administration was handled by Swedish Police Commissioner Leif Smith, from offices off the rue de Namur in Brussels. Police from almost all WEU Nations participated in the operation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.10.226.177 (talk) 09:51, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

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