north shore news __MAIL Box Critical of Dear Editor: Re: cartoon, Wednesday, June 23. Did the cartoon of the RCMP officer in Kosovo, depicted asa “photo radar traffic cap” in an impossible situation, represent what the general public secs as the RCMP’s primary duty in Canada as well as what they have done and are to con- tribute to war-torn-Third- World countries? In an interview on the CBC, Chicf Superintendent Peter Miller stated that the majority of offices deployed in Kosovo would be investi- gating war crimes,thcir prima- ry concern being the state of evidence in Kosavo. He stated that his officers were professionals in dealing with crime scenes where they would be using their forensic skills to obtain the evidence needed to bring the perpetra- tors of the crimes against humanity to justice: *. In the Baltics, Canada has had both troops and peace officers. Besides ‘the deploy- ment of troops to help the transition to a hopefully just, - democratic sociery, there has becn the tradition of our ace officers going to Third orld countries to teach the ‘police forces in those coun- tries how ‘to become “peace officers”. rather than the rants that existed in places like Haiti prior to 1994. My son was in the inidal _ Broup of 12 RCMP officers “that went.to Haiti in 1994. ‘He was also with the advance > group when they returned after the Haitian president was installed i into office, “The RCMP and Canadian police’ in general have been ‘ part.of a multi-national force ~ © which has’ beet’ involved in the training, deployment, and support of the Third World national police in Third World or war-torn countries since that time. After two years in Haiti they have been able to devel- op a police academy that has trained over 6,000 Haitian police. Although they had wanted the recruits to have at least seven years of education, they had to settle for men with a minimum of four years of education. This is only one of the deplorable conditions in so many developing countrics. Aficr the United Nations troops were removed, the RCMP, in conjunction with the United Nations, remained in Haiti to strengthen the management and technical skills of the Haitian police force. In this [ast conflict, the RCMP in Bosnia were scen and interviewed on the CBC while working with the Kosovo refugecs. My son, Inspector Doug Coates, has had personnel working on the Kosovo Verification Mission as well as personnel in Bosnic. He has conducted a needs assessment in sub-Szharan Africa where he says the situa- tion of refugees is more pathetic than those in Kosovo. ‘He then attended trainin in Italy, visited his personne in Haiti and Guatemala and will be travelling co Bosnia -and Kosovo this summer. This is financed by the United Nations. 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