Early action is the early deployment of resources by public bodies to prevent problems occurring or getting worse, rather than spending money reactively, once those problems have occurred.

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Rather, they must attack the root of the malaise, namely unemployment and inefficient use of capital, and better deployment of human resources, technology and investment funds.

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Mr Bamba said any adjustments to the size of the force would need to be offset "by the deployment of qualitative resources, such as surveillance drones for the border zone between Ivory Coast and Liberia".

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But others are sceptical, fearing that the firm lacks the resources to pay for its widespread deployment and that the technology may not work as billed.

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They require new security, provisioning, management, deployment, repair and service investments, resources and training.

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