POLICE ACADEMY UNDER FIRE FOR AIDING 'FOREIGN DICTATORSHIPS'

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 7, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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The IPA trains police-"
BY CAROL CLIFFORD from 77 countries around (D-S.D.) a major opponent
Times Staff Writer'. the World and is part o? of the IPA, plans to intro-
the public safety program. duce an amendment to the.'
''-iSHLNGTON-As de_
monstrators gathered near. of the Agency for Interna- foreign aid. }bill which
the presidential palace 'no- !' tional Development, a divi- could eliminate the- entire..
Class - topics include
comparative police sys- I
tems; principles of police
photography, police and
the. community, narcotics
control, records and identi-
lice in the capital city of lion of the State Depart public safety program. fication, introduction to fn-
the republic of San Martin'I ment. Based on the pre-~ The:-,-amendment, if. - ternal security, nature of
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moved in to -disperse- the.
mob. A roadblock was or-
dered and-reinforcements.
were called out..
\Vhen. demonstrators
threw the -first :..Molotov
cocktail, police. countered
Nvit_h a barrage: of-chemical
munitions, Marched,--
rase that police, rather
than the military, are the
most effective means of
f.a
l. the insurgent threat,
passect-::zvould cut, o
fund zr-fbr=training, adds bombs- and bomb matters,
"ing, and?.=supporting (with-;^ counter-subversive intel-
inthe United. State and licence-and concepts of
ty in developing countries, abroad police :"prisons or " ideological infiltration.
the academy was estab-~ otherinternal security or :Along special courses
lished in 1963 during the intelligence forces' oL any for senior officers are re=
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tration and is the only edu- AbourezIc"'charged that planning,. telecammtlnica-
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agitators. ,";r ed expressly for the bene to ?"frain police for foreign for- terrorlsis, uhti ersl~ e
,, fit of foreign" police offs i dictatorships; :many of manipulation and darn. ?
It may sound_llk.e anoth-, mestic intelli g
cers. whom; imprison their on ence.
er revol t is Latin America,
As attorney gencral,'the people for political reasons - To supplement lectures
but the epubl c "Of San late Robert F'. Konnecly andpemploy torture.' and seminars, the acader -v ; .71 .Martin cant *beifo u nd onl as an early supporter o#, ?" :,:. has a large." collection of
any world map. exists oy,
; the. IPA... In February, Abourezk introduced. a,: films; .'including many cn
cal. ,country, it exists onlly 1964, speaking to the first
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Oil a map at the 3nterna-~
I graduating class, Kennedy Fear It. tiyas narrowly, ue=, zation, narcotics control, a
tional Police=.AcacleDC ' called law enforcement of- 'feated in the Senate. ut' police-community- rely
roused in the old
ficials a "real. first line of. he foresees more support` Lions. Other titles include
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And the "revolt" was "
st aged only on paper at the academy, according to ` ness:Mernbers of Congress , ry
Lauren J. Goin, director of have received heavy mail, . training in basic poli
t ions o's Police Opera- the Office of Public Safety,- he said,'.. urging.. curtail-Nveapons is given in tl.e
part ns of Co thntrol Center as is to prepare civil police to ment' of the public safety IR'A's electronically con
pe poIi cctraining trolled firearms range, and
rooess. The center isi deal with internal. dis pro; ram.
p Adkins- denied that the ~,ppraximately. . 300,090.
equipped Nvith_ a large orders and to apply, au
thority in-enforcing the" IPA and the public safety rounds a year are fired, Ad
Iria^nct1C malq radio, tei? b a d ti1nS Sal i. ?onleth?t Cha
prone, teletype and, couper law with a minimum of assistance. pro ram al
force. foreign police in . repres- - ..-Inical munitions are de
communications. Partici-' OnStraiCd at a nee. ,
pants at the academy plan "Change -itself causes Sion.,. Support and funds m b l
strategies and. de play; stress, Goin said.. If -it would 16withdra\~.n froin monstr a y se.
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cal problems. frustrate progress:, . Pro- repression. were found 1.d-
press, he said, requires kips said, but added that it,
tranquility and "proven is not always easy to d ter-
u though a mythical tion of factors of disrup-' mine:?which governments.
country, San Martin has a lion who, arc preempting arc- dictatorships. That de-
realistic social and eco-_ the process of change" . .. termination, he said, is-
gargle base with features Internal order, Adkins made at a higher level in
of most large urban areas,, the State Department.
according to E. H.'Adkins added, is necessary for a, favorable climate for in Participants at the aca-
ac crop. 'T heemar is the vestm ent. When a country' demy take courses in three ac- cally a he map. is re, is beset by violence and fields ?- police manage-
aly a map of Baltimore, al- disorder, he. said, "foreign ment, police operations--
* LL`.clkin7 + said, with a few al- and internal security .
capital runs like scared -
All participants at the.,
academy must write a the-'
sis before graduation. No
exams are given, AdKins
said, because conse
quences of failure could be
severe in the home coun-
tries. Police 101o have
lien sent home from IPA
far disciplinary reasons
have been met at the air-
port with handcuffs and
thrown in jail, he said.
"Some of these countries
ternational flavor" cats The future of the acade- Nearewprett} rived train-es
my will be challenged
]a- spend the first week in an
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