Twenty five Burmese policemen began a training course on narcotics
control at the public security high school in southwest China's
Yunnan Province Sunday.
All the trainees are well-trained policemen, a high-ranking officer
from Myanma says, adding this is the first time Myanma has sent
this many policemen to undergo training in a foreign country.
Sun Dahong, deputy head of the Yunnan Provincial Bureau of Public
Security, said that this was the first time China has trained
narcotics control officers for a foreign country.
He
says the policemen will receive five-weeks' training which will
include information on drug trafficking, narcotics control
strategy, the law on the control of narcotics, and international
cooperation in narcotics control.
( February 22, 2002)