We always planned twice the amount of time to do anything with local forces.
These included the widespread use of surrogate local forces and the distribution of patronage.
Worried police chiefs quickly instructed local forces to step up their monitoring of yakuza activities.
"Decisions about the use of available resources, including police stations, are a matter for local forces, " it said.
America plans to send 3, 000 troops to the Philippines to help local forces fight the Abu Sayyaf militant group.
Nato is planning to withdraw most of its forces from Afghanistan within the next two years and is handing over security to local forces.
Iraqi Army troops, which have been sent from Baghdad to Basra, so as not to use the local forces, which may be infiltrated, they're going house-to-house.
In Britain, research is commissioned by the government, which then launches initiatives and task forces that are deeply resented by the chief constables who run the local forces.
And Bosnia's 1, 700-strong international police task-force, which now does little more than monitor and occasionally train local forces, would have to be beefed up into a squad of real law-enforcers.
Meanwhile Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said there had been steady progress in the handover of security responsibilities in Afghanistan to local forces, who are now leading 80 % of security operations.
The stakes are huge for corporations, which theoretically could be held liable for any actions of the government in nations where they do business, pay taxes, and rely on local forces to protect their assets.
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The coalition's leaders, at least, seem to have grasped that it must behave not as an occupying army but as a partner, whose aim is to build up the local forces that will ultimately ensure Afghanistan's security.
Monday's events show how difficult it will be to clean up local police forces.
The Mai Mai were originally armed by the Kinshasa government as autonomous local defense forces.
Britain has about 7, 300 soldiers in southern Afghanistan, fighting alongside U.S., Canadian, Dutch, and local Afghan forces.
Encouraging local police forces to develop their own methods has often worked where it has been tried.
The government says commissioners are not there to run local police forces but to hold them to account.
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U.S. troops patrolling an outpost in northern Bosnia also confirm a breakdown in their relations with local Serb forces.
The UK government says commissioners are not there to run local police forces but to hold them to account.
Afghan local police forces are recruited from villages, and frequently include former insurgents.
The Pentagon has created a new Africa Command to help monitor the area more closely and train local government forces.
They will also be responsible for holding their local police forces to account and setting the budget, including the council tax precept.
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Some local Sunni Arabs, some outsiders, some out of conviction, some for money and some, he says, within the local security forces.
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Mexico has no choice but to deploy the army to do what corrupt and inefficient state and local police forces can't, says Mr. Fasci.
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The police and prosecuting authorities are being given advice on how local police forces should deal with any allegations of voting fraud which may emerge.
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It was announced earlier this month that the Home Office's Police Standards Unit (PSU) has already begun working with local police forces to identify key problems.
But more lives are likely to be lost before the troops are in a position to hand over security to local security forces and police, he said.
In the long-run, Mexico will need to continue to improve its legal system and enhance the ability of local police forces to maintain order and uphold the rule of law.
Over the past two decades Mexico's drug mobs have accumulated enormous firepower and wealth, and corrupted local police forces and politicians, especially along the northern border with the United States.
Similarly, the UK's 43 local police forces have responsibilities to investigate bribery under the National Policing Plan - even though the Plan explicitly says it expects only a few investigations.
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