Police: Libya
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Lady Hermon (North Down, UUP)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers from each force provided training in Libya in each of the last five years; and what training roles such officers undertook.
David Hanson (Minister of State (Crime and Policing), Home Office; Delyn, Labour)
Assistance was provided in the period between
2004: three police officers and one member of police staff from West Yorkshire police delivered a three-week programme on drugs investigation. This was part of a project coordinated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime;
2008: one police officer from South Wales police delivered a two-week Major Incident Command Programme organised by the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA);
2008: two police staff members of the NPIA delivered a two-week forensic awareness training programme;
2009: two police officers (one seconded to the NPIA) from the Police Service of Northern Ireland delivered a three-week Silver Command and Control Programme.