Australian Home Affairs Minister Opens Police Computer Based Training Centre

The Australian Minister for Home Affairs, Bob Debus, officially opened a new computer based training (CBT) centre in Bali today as part of cooperative efforts between the Australian Federal Police, the Indonesian National Police and the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

The opening coincides with the Third Bali Process Regional Ministerial Conference, which will be co-chaired by the Australian and Indonesian Governments in Bali on 14 and 15 April. The Bali Process grouping comprises over 50 countries and international organisations and represents the pre-eminent regional forum for cooperation in combating people-smuggling and human trafficking.

The centre will increase the capacity of the Indonesian National Police to manage the training of Indonesian police officers in combating a range of transnational crime types. The computer based training facility will include a human trafficking module which was released worldwide by UNODC in 2007. The Australian Federal Police and the Indonesian National Police are currently working with the UNODC to design and develop a people smuggling module along similar lines.

The centre is modelled on the Jakarta Centre for Law Enforcement Cooperation (JCLEC) CBT facility. JCLEC was established by the Australian and Indonesian Governments in 2004 and has held over 200 courses and trained over 4500 officials from 40 countries in the Asia Pacific region. JCLEC’s CBT facility has been in operation since August 2007 and has trained more than 1000 participants to date.

The CBT centre in Bali is the first satellite learning centre coordinated by JCLEC. JCLEC will soon be establishing a CBT facility at the Indonesian Police Academy, to be used by officer cadets in preparation for senior positions within the Indonesian National Police.

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