US embassy cable - 05OTTAWA1221

C O N F I D E N T I A L OTTAWA 001221 
 
SIPDIS 
 
NOFORN 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/22/2015 
TAGS: PTER, SNAR, SOCI, CA, IQ 
SUBJECT: CANADA: IRAQI POLICE TRAINING PROGRAM IN JORDAN 
 
REF: A. BAGHDAD 735 
 
     B. STATE 72189 
 
1. (U) The Government of Canada has every intention to 
continue its International Police Trainers participation at 
the Jordan International Police Training Center through 
CY2006.  According to Foreign Affairs Canada, Regional 
Peacekeeping Director Wendy Gilmour on April 22, 
recommendations have already moved forward in Ottawa's 
bureaucracy to at least maintain the full complement of 20 
Canadian trainers in Jordan.  She noted however that the 
final decision would be made by the Canada International 
Development Agency (CIDA) and remains subject to available 
funds. Gilmour stressed that she did not foresee a problem as 
the budgetary provisions were submitted earlier this year and 
had engendered no objections. 
 
2.  (C/NF) In confidence Gilmour said that Ottawa would 
positively respond to the request to increase the number of 
Canadian trainers in Jordan, subject to funding.  In order to 
do this, however, Gilmour noted that CIDA, as a development 
agency quote hell bent to program to specific and clearly 
identified needs, thus ensuring end product sustainability 
unquote would respond best to a detailed list of training 
needs, i.e., forensics, police mid-management, crime scene 
protection, etc.  Blanket requests for increased 
participation, she feared would fall on deaf ears as CIDA 
unqote is demand not supply driven unquote. 
 
3.  (C/NF) Gilmour continued that her government vastly 
preferred that the training program in Jordan be used to the 
fullest for the foreseeable future.  She said the current and 
projected security environment in Iraq makes it impossible 
for Canada to deploy Canadians there except in very few 
numbers.   She insisted this prohibition was non-negotiable. 
That said, however, Gilmour said that Canada would be willing 
to send two more Canadian police to Baghdad to work with the 
Ministry of the Interior so long as everyone understood that 
all Canadian police officers sent to Iraq are and would be 
prohibited by Ottawa from departing the Green Zone. (Note: 
Canada has two police officers currently in Baghdad under the 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police's International 
Assistance/Training Program.  Both are MoI advisors and are 
embedded with the UK's Police Assistance Team and any 
additional officers would be as well.  The first of the 
current officers, from the Peel Police Department, is due out 
of country this July and his replacement has already been 
selected. The second officer, a Mountie from the Toronto 
office, is expected to remain through the end of 2005.) 
 
Visit Canada's Classified Web Site at 
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/ottawa 
 
DICKSON