The man in charge of developing the police force, Canadian Major General Mike Ward, says that can be corrected with training.
VOA: standard.2010.06.16
He already seen many of his squad in action since the Croatia defeat and postponed a research trip to the US, where he planned to study Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren's training techniques.
Mike Kenfield, spokesman for the Army's training and doctrine command, said that the program was credited for "reductions in non-lethal operations" and that there had been talk about expanding the purview of the team to outside Iraq and Afghanistan.
Inspector Mike Kneeshaw went with me to see the differences the classroom training provided by Scottish officers is making to real lives on the ground in Sri Lanka.