And she went on to say that project management and contracting skills "gained by officials must now be deployed elsewhere in the civil service where these skills have often been found wanting in the past".
According to the Third Geneva Convention itself (the one covering POWs), for a person to qualify as a POW and be accorded the treatment proscribed in said convention, that person mustbe affiliated (either regular army or militia meaning some sort of uniform) with a "High Contracting Power" (a state that was party to the convention but for argument's sake we'll say any state).