May 4, 2009 - The four-week counter terrorism training course organized by ICPAT was opened in Kenya today. The 25 participants in the course have been drawn up from the Kenya Police, the Administration Police and the Kenya National Counter Terrorism Center. The course is being delivered in the premises of the Administration Police Training Center in Embakasi, a suburb of Nairobi. The Executive Secretary of IGAD, Engineer Mahboub Maalim was on hand at the opening as was the Acting Commandant of the Training Center, Samuel Arachi. The subjects to be taken up at the course include theories and typologies of terrorism, terrorist behaviour and motivation, migration related crimes, crisis management, community policing, terrorist profiling, international legal assistance and extradition, border security management, , intelligence and survellance, role of INTERPOL, interdepartmental cooperation, principles of interviewing and interrogation, detection of deception, terrorist financing, crime scene management, respect for human rights, concepts in counter terrorism, the international legal regime in countering terrorism, pre-incident and incident measures, and alternative strategies to counter terrorism. Among the institutions involved in the delivery of the course program are included the African Union,INTERPOL, the International Organization of Migration, Institute for Security Studies,Scotland Yard and experts from Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.)

This is the sixth offering of the 4 week course following its delivery in Uganda, (for) Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti. The course was first offered in Uganda in August of 2007 and most recently was presented in Djibouti in March of this year. In the case of Sudan, Somalia and Djibouti,the course was presented with simultaneous translation in Arabic, Somali and French respectively. This CT course was designed in 2006 by ICPAT, through its Senior Training Coordinator, Commander Abebe Muluneh, with the guidance of a Training Task Force made up of trainers from IGAD member states. In its initial stages, EAPCCO, the East African Police Chiefs Coordination Organization also contributed to the development of the course. In 2008, ICPAT carried out a Training Needs Assessment in IGAD member states and is now planning to offer courses/seminars of a shorter duration starting with a region-wide 10 day course to be held in Ethiopia in July 2009 (ICPAT Information)