STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK And where else are these funloving guys and gals going to make this kind of big bucks and enjoy all the interesting percs they do now? Kosovo...? Must speak to the Lord High Commander/Imperial Grand Vizier Jacques Klein about a transfer. May 30, 2001 Police Ousted From Bosnian Force by EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Dozens of international police officers, including a number of Americans, have been removed from the U.N. force in Bosnia because of misconduct over the past five years, a U.N. official said Wednesday. Officers have been found guilty of violating the force's code of conduct for a variety of offenses, including accepting financial favors, overstepping authority, patronizing prostitutes, and committing statutory rape, the official said on condition he not be named. Those found to have violated the force's conduct rules have been immediately removed, and the information regarding the investigation forwarded to the government of the officer's home country, he said. It is then the responsibility of the individual U.N. member nation to take any disciplinary or legal action against the police officer. Under the 1995 Dayton peace agreement, which ended a 3�-year war in Bosnia, the United Nations halved the 40,000-strong Serb, Croat and Muslim police force. The U.N. police were then authorized to take the 20,000 police remaining and train them in human rights, forensics, pathology, traffic management and criminology, a job that is expected to be completed by December 2002. Nearly 10,000 police officers from countries around the world, including 800 Americans, have served in the U.N. International Police Task Force and ''the vast majority...have performed in a highly professional manner,'' but allegations of misconduct have arisen, the U.N. official said. Since mid-1999, when Jacques Klein became the U.N. envoy to Bosnia, 24 international police officers, including eight Americans, have been removed from the force for misconduct, he said. Exact figures of the number of police officers removed for misconduct in earlier years were not available. The United Nations does not have its own police force and therefore must rely on member nations to provide qualified officers. � __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
